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Subject: Re: spammers kill me
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At 09:48 AM 4/9/2003, Chip Morton wrote:
  
>I got this piece of spam earlier today:
>
>   This message contains an HTML formatted message but your
>   email client does not support the display of HTML. Please
>   view this message in a different mail client or forward
>   this email to a web-based mail system.
>
>So now I'm not only supposed to put up with this stuff, but I'm supposed to go through some effort to work around their formatting issues?  

Yes. Because the HTML probably contains "e-mail bugs:" image
tags that cause your computer to hit their Web server. Which
in turn alerts the spammer when the mail is read. If you don't
cooperate, you spoil their whole plan. (Awwwww.)

--Brett