Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

[Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () center osis gov>]

Somewhere in the following confused ramble may actually be the only
cogent argument for top-posting I've seen.

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:52:29AM +0000, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
> For those of us who read nanog from a mobile device, it's incredibly
> annoying to have no content in the first few bytes - a lot of mobile
> e-mail clients (all MS Windows Mobile 5 devices and every Blackberry
> I've seen) pull the first 0.5KB of each message, i.e. the header,
> subject line and the first few lines of text, so the user can decide
> which ones are worth reading in full.
>
> Intention is to save bandwidth on low-speed, noncertain networks
> (GPRS, 1xRTT) which also tend to be metered per-bit - spending actual
> money to read something like the following is always a great way to
> start the day.
>
> > > NANOG User wrote:
>   >>>
> .>>
> .>>>
> > > Steve wrote:
> .
> > > >
> .>>
> Another User temporarily inconvenienced several million electrons to
> lucubrate anent following philosophy, and how clever silly synonyms
> for "said" are:
> > >
> > Someone's PGP Key
> >
> > Someone's Smartass Sig

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Joe Yao
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