RasterWeb!A quick followup to Spam King: Julius Caeser. Reader Jonathan Louie suggests that the unrelated text might be in there to throw off Bayesian email filters. though he doesn’t think that the strategy will work, based on what he knows of Bayesian filters…
In case you were wondering, I’d suggest that In the Beginning: A video on Weblogs History be retitled to “In the Beginning: A video on Blogger History” as it seems to suggest that the fine folks at Blogger somehow invented weblogging.
While Blogger helped popularize weblogging/blogging. I don’t think they invented it. Don’t worry, I take the same view of Apple. I’m fully aware they did not invent GUI computing, but they certainly popularized it.
(And people wonder why Dave freaks out so often…)
Remember when I saw something strange in the plain text of an HTML email message? Sure you do… It’s happened again.
When viewing the message as HTML, it’s some crap about mortgage rates, but when viewed as plain text, you get this little bit from free papers on Julius Caeser:
Caesar knew that the Republicans believed rumours about him wanting the throne.19 He also realised the dislike of them towards him: “How can I doubt that I am heartedly disliked, when Cicero sits waiting and cannot visit me at his convenience? Yet if ever there was a good natured man, it was he… I am perfectly sure that he detests me.” 20 In order to dispel the rumours…
It’s as if people who don’t use HMTL email are being discriminated against. I mean, what if I want to fire my boss, or want some enlarged body part(s)? I’ll never even be given the opportunity. Instead I have to learn something educational about P.T. Barnum, or Julius Caeser. Sheesh!
A small update to the minigr skin for AmphetaDesk. Changed a link, and added 1/2 a line of code, which is really pure hackery, and will be fixed up properly when the next version comes out. (Right Morbus?)