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[SC-Help] Re: Failed to parse HTML Head

JOE AHEARN cashbox at bellsouth.net
Sat Jul 16 15:05:19 EDT 2005


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Easter" <MikeE at ster.invalid>
Newsgroups: spamcop.help
To: "Joe Ahearn" <cashbox at bellsouth.net>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 5:13 AM
Subject: [SC-Help] Re: Failed to parse HTML Head


> Geoff Lane wrote:
>> "Mike Easter"
>>> The problem is that the wrapper/delimitor for the inner mime
>>> structure at the * should say 'Content-Type: text/html'
>>>
>>> If I make/forge that change, everything parses properly:
>
>> Although I can see what you've done, I don't have enough expertise to
>> completely understand why you've done it - and so can't "correct" the
>> source of future spam where spammy is using the same trick. Even if I
>> did, I suspect that altering the source and then sending LARTS via SC
>> would be against SC's terms of use (or would it?).
>
> No no no.  That wasn't the purpose of the forgery.  The purpose was to
> aid 'us' in understanding the problem.
>
> We aren't supposed to forge/alter our spam to feed to the parser.  We
> are having a discussion here to go about understanding the problem.
>
> That's the reason I call it 'forgery' and cancel it.  By making a change
> and seeing the parser parse the item, I confirm what I think was wrong
> with the structure, from the parser's point of view.
>
> -- 
> Mike Easter
> kibitzer, not SC admin
>
>
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>your list.  Please!  Joe Ahearn 




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