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Mahmood Frye—What's that again? I think I'm not talking your language...*
* I think I meant to say: "I don't think I'm talking your language..." or was I?
Okay! I'm a geek and in 2006 I'm still using pine to read my emails. So what? Well... some co[s]mic people write emails for HTML display only and the result in pine is quite funny so I thought I'd share my view. 8-)
Below you will see the HTML used to generate such gibberish and how the spammer intended me to see the email.
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:52:55 -0700 From: Mahmood Frye <frye@cmsrtp.com> To: info@m2osw.com Subject: Re: pexit refnnce Parts/Attachments: 1 OK ~14 lines Text 2 Shown ~78 lines Text ---------------------------------------- Hi, $ 2 z 00, 00 z 0 Loa o n for o f nly $ 82 w 7 month. B m AD CR h ED p IT Ok t ! http://perlomd.com/l1/ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ shot, as he darted back and fled up the tunnel. It was an unfortunate remark, for the dragon spouted terrific flames after him, and fast though he sped up the slope, he had not gone nearly far enough to be comfortable before the ghastly head of Smaug was thrust
So... to see the text version of an HTML email, you hit 'h' in pine. This shows me the following. You can see that there's a lot floating in the air. I've seen the effect and I display that below (i.e. what was actually intended by the spammer).
Received: from snap.turnwatcher.com by substitute with [XMail 1.22 ESMTP Server] id <S7B5E> for <@mail.m2osw.com:info@halk.m2osw.com> from <frye@cmsrtp.com>; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:51:29 -0700 Received: from cmsrtp.com (bl5-213-83.dsl.telepac.pt [82.154.213.83]) by snap.turnwatcher.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 914B926AD22 for <info@m2osw.com>; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:52:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <000001c68b1b$fd545c60$52e8a8c0@tpc97> Reply-To: "Mahmood Frye" <frye@cmsrtp.com> From: "Mahmood Frye" <frye@cmsrtp.com> To: info@m2osw.com Subject: Re: pexit refnnce Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:52:55 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0001_01C68AE1.50F7F560" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Parts/Attachments: 1 OK ~14 lines Text 2 Shown ~78 lines Text ---------------------------------------- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,<BR> <BR> $ 2<span style =" float : RIGHT"> z </SPAN>00, 00<span style =" float : RIGHT"> z </SPAN>0 Loa<span style =" float : RIGHT"> o </SPAN>n for o<span style =" float : RIGHT"> f </SPAN>nly $ 82<span style =" float : RIGHT"> w </SPAN>7 month. <BR> <BR> B<span style =" float : RIGHT"> m </SPAN>AD CR<span style =" float : RIGHT"> h </SPAN>ED<span style =" float : RIGHT"> p </SPAN>IT Ok<span style =" float : RIGHT"> t </SPAN>! <A href="http://perlomd.com/l1/">http://perlomd.com/l1/</A><BR> <BR></FONT></DIV> <HR> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>shot, as he darted back and fled up the tunnel.<BR> It was an unfortunate remark, for the dragon spouted terrific flames<BR> after him, and fast though he sped up the slope, he had not gone nearly<BR> far enough to be comfortable before the ghastly head of Smaug was thrust<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
Still reading?! No really... you have nothing else to do?! 8-)
So... here we are! That's what you will see if you look at this email "properly". So when I receive one like that in Yahoo! it looks like this. There is some crap at the bottom still... and the "intermediate" (anti-spam software) letters they add appear on the right side of the screen (that's the effect of that float: right style.)
Hi,
$ 2 z 00, 00 z 0 Loa o n for o f nly $ 82 w 7 month.
B m AD CR h ED p IT Ok t ! http://perlomd.com/l1/
$ 2 z 00, 00 z 0 Loa o n for o f nly $ 82 w 7 month.
B m AD CR h ED p IT Ok t ! http://perlomd.com/l1/
shot, as he darted back and fled up the tunnel.
It was an unfortunate remark, for the dragon spouted terrific flames
after him, and fast though he sped up the slope, he had not gone nearly
far enough to be comfortable before the ghastly head of Smaug was thrust
It was an unfortunate remark, for the dragon spouted terrific flames
after him, and fast though he sped up the slope, he had not gone nearly
far enough to be comfortable before the ghastly head of Smaug was thrust
Voila... that's all folks!
