[SC-Help] Re: spamcop hiccup

[Mike Easter]

That's not a SC hiccup, that's a spammer barf.

DougW wrote:
<no words of his own in the body of his message, so we don't know what
he was trying to say>

> Resolving link obfuscation
>    http://<bedimmed>.birchwet.net#surfeitpostwar

The chars '<' and '>' are special and 'unsafe' chars not to be used in
that way in a url.  Also, the '#' is a special char whose use is only
appropriate in the right way -- which is *not* attached to the toplevel
domainname.

Here's one place about that kind of information
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm  RFC 1738:
Uniform Resource Locators (URL) specification -- What characters need to
be encoded and why?  -- "Reserved characters"  -- "Unsafe characters"

 > Tracking link: http://<bedimmed>.birchwet.net#surfeitpostwar
> No recent reports, no history available
>
> Cannot resolve http://<bedimmed>.birchwet.net#surfeitpostwar

www.spamcop.net/sc?id=z906776672z250d55850ad822b2ba8aec97192b1686z

Spammers do all kinds of illegal and 'inappropriate' things with their
url/s because they know that browsers are very error tolerant.  I can't
imagine a browser being so error tolerant as to acquire that link.

Here's a message I posted in an EL support group earlier today about
writing in the message body:


Mike Easter wrote:
Subject: How to create a new news message

> For those who don't understand the important difference between the
> subject and the body of a news message.
>
> The body of the news message is an extremely important element.  The
> body is where the message's real content should reside, and the body's
> content should be designed so that when someone answers the message,
> important questions and observations have been stated.  This enables
> the contextualization of an answer to follow those words when/if a
> reply is made.
>
> The subject of the message has a different function.  It's job is to
> 'reference' the content of the body succinctly, in a terse way, the
> way a paragraph or section of an outline might define the content in
> a few words.  The subject is not the place to ask the question or to
> make the statement -- with an empty body or a body which fails to
> convey the 'message' of the message.
>
> When learning how to write subjects and bodies for a new message, a
> good method is to write the body first.  By doing so, you get all of
> the important information properly located there.  Then, after the
> entire message has been placed into the body, the subject can be
> created to 'characterize' that body's content.  That prevents the
> 'problem' of starting a message in the subject, asking the question
> or making the statement there, and then having 'nothing else to say'
> in the body.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin