Re: Tasmanian Devil
From Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 1 Dec 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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.----- On 27 Nov 1999 14:10:53 GMT, Ilmari Karonen posted: |<body bgcolor="#667711" text="#ffff00"><pre><blink><b><i><u><s> |<font face="Matisse ITC,Westminster,Comic Sans MS" size="+7"> | |On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 20:06:36 +0000, Ben Norwood (bdn...@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. | |: And here's a simple reply designed to annoy all those with html-enabled |: newsmanglers... :) | |..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.. | '---------------------------------------- ... or using a multipart/mixed (OE-style) message with the HTML segment set to: <DIV STYLE="font-size: 50em;">GET A BETTER NEWSREADER</DIV> 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 |\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@-- | |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,a0b1b9adcfa44920 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins) Subject: Re: Tasmanian Devil Date: 1999/12/01 Message-ID: <384...@news.vossnet.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 555429504 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-163.vossnet.co.uk References: <383...@news.mdc.net> <383...@t-online.de> <383...@news.vossnet.net> <Pine.GSO.4.20.9911262002420.7220-100000@xena> <81oopd$87g$1...@tron.sci.fi> X-Complaints-To: abu...@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: zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Dec 1999 20:05:05 GMT Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art
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