Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 00:26:27 -0700 From: "html" <html@grc.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Your HTML Email was refused by our server Message-ID: <10508290026.AA54012757@client.grc.com>
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Your HTML Email was refused by our server Hello, Your recent eMail to GRC.COM was not delivered because it contains "HTML" formatting. HTML stands for "Hyper Text Markup Language". It is the language used by web pages on the World Wide Web (WWW). Since nearly all unsolicited commercial eMail (UCE or SPAM) uses HTML formatting to create those eye-catching large and colored fonts and embedded graphics, but since HTML is completely unneeded and, in fact, interferes with efficient communication, we return this notice about such eMail to its sender so that the HTML can be removed. This is usually as simple as asking your eMail client to "remove formatting." See the links below for additional information. The eMail we received had the subject of: Mail Delivery (failure steve@grc.com) It was addressed to: steve@grc.com In exchange for the slight inconvenience to a few users (who really should turn off HTML formatting in their own eMail clients) we receive SIGNIFICANTLY LESS SPAM to receive and filter. We apologize for the inconvenience of this bounce notice, and we hope that you will resend the note you recently sent us after removing its HTML formatting. You might consider turning off your eMail client's formatting altogether. The "Plain Text" option is what you want. These links provide help in removing HTML formatting from your eMail and have additional background about HTML in eMail: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml Thanks for your understanding, and for helping us to deal with the Internet's serious and growing SPAM problem. Regards, GRC Automated Security.
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