X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,a0b1b9adcfa44920 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: zneg.ngxvaf@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) Subject: Re: Tasmanian Devil Date: 1999/12/01 Message-ID: <38456430.6962694@news.vossnet.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 555429504 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-163.vossnet.co.uk References: <3838b7c8_2@news.mdc.net> <3839D45A.28DC0F9@t-online.de> <383c4444.14095391@news.vossnet.net> <81oopd$87g$1@tron.sci.fi> X-Complaints-To: abuse@cableinet.net X-Trace: news1.cableinet.co.uk 944078705 29976 195.188.10.3 (1 Dec 1999 20:05:05 GMT) Organization: Cable Internet (post doesn't reflect views of Cable Internet) Reply-To: zneg.ngxvaf@ovtsbbg.pbz NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Dec 1999 20:05:05 GMT Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art .----- On 27 Nov 1999 14:10:53 GMT, Ilmari Karonen posted: |


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|On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 20:06:36 +0000, Ben Norwood (bdn95@aber.ac.uk) wrote:
|: On Yesterday, Martin Atkins wrote:
|: : But who cares what a program thinks? It's quite likely that anything reading
|: : a newsgroup that isn't a human is some kind of email address picker-upper.
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|: And here's a simple reply designed to annoy all those with html-enabled
|: newsmanglers... :)
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|..though only those that are actually broken enough to ignore the
|Content-Type header. If one really wanted to annoy people, one could
|mark the message as text/html instead. Of course, no-one here would
|even think of doing such a thing, right?
|
|And no, that isn't really mean. Really mean would be using JavaScript..
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... or using a multipart/mixed (OE-style) message with the HTML segment set
to:
GET A BETTER NEWSREADER

that way anyone using that sort of newsreader, wouldn't be able to read the
message without looking at the message source :o)

That... or use VBScript and use the Windows Scripting Host WSHShell
object... umm... sorry - been done :o)

Kind Regards,
-Martin
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