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Actually, I wasn't laughing.  The whole thing just points out to me how
"broken" SMTP mail is and how sad it is that X.400, such as it was,
didn't see wide adoption.

- Jeff

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 12:48, Dow Hurst wrote:
> The replies are getting so funny on the list that I am reading them to 
> my wife. ;-)
> 
> If you send something that is this funny, Jeff, you ought to put a 
> smiley face to show your humor!  Otherwise, we might think you weren't 
> laughing when your wrote it! :-)
> 
> I am still laughing....
> 
> 
> My question about the email is if you disable images, Javascript, and 
> html in email then would the link even work?  Anyone using a client that 
> won't do that kind of config for email will just suffer.  I have turned 
> on the ultimate spam stuff that Earthlink offers and configured my 
> online address book at Earthlink with the addresses and domains I get 
> email from regularly.  Anything else is held until I look at it and 
> decide if it is spam or not.  It is working great and when I POP the 
> mail to home, I only get what I really want.  Earthlink will always 
> allow their billing email thru, but the spam forms won't get thru.
> Dow
> 
> 
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 
> >And this is noteworthy why?
> >
> >My cynicism is doe to the fact that this form of scam is becoming too
> >commmonplace to make mention of.  Warnings can't possibly help anymore;
> >let Darwinism sort out the victims.
> >
> >- Jeff
> >
> >On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 09:02, Robert Heaven wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Warning!!! for those on earthlink... I just got an email that looks
> >>totally legit, supposedly from earthlink, saying they couldn't bill my
> >>credit card and I need to click on a link to "re-enter" my credit card
> >>info... When I looked at the email source, I could see that the link
> >>was actually to a server called "curvet.co.kr". (is that Korea?) I
> >>don't think earthlink has moved their billing department to Korea.
> >>(India maybe but definitely not Korea) 
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