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Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing
From: Michael.Dillon () btradianz com
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 13:47:00 +0000
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.
Why should all 1 billion Internet users change their behavior just because your minority mail-reading system is broken? Hint: Procmail is your friend. Set up your own mail server and run procmail against all incoming email with newline-greaterthan in the first 500 bytes. You can preprocess these messages to do something like strip headers that you don't read and copy the first few reply lines to be first in the message. That way your mobile device will get more bang for the buck than most other people's. Paul Vixie's colo registry may be of help if you need to find a place to stick your own mail server http://www.vix.com/personalcolo/ --Michael Dillon
Current thread:
- RE: Phishing and BGP Blackholing, (continued)
- RE: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Neil J. McRae (Jan 03)
- Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Travis H. (Jan 17)
- Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Mark Foster (Jan 02)
- Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Rich Kulawiec (Jan 03)
- on a different "manners" topic, was Re: Phishing... Edward Lewis (Jan 03)
- Re: on a different "manners" topic, was Re: Phishing... Justin M. Streiner (Jan 03)
- Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Mark Foster (Jan 03)
- Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Joseph S D Yao (Jan 03)
- Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Mark Foster (Jan 03)
- Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Alexander Harrowell (Jan 04)
- Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Michael . Dillon (Jan 04)
- Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Alexander Harrowell (Jan 04)
- Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Pete Templin (Jan 04)
- Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Bill Nash (Jan 04)
- Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Michael . Dillon (Jan 04)
- Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Joseph S D Yao (Jan 04)
- Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Joseph S D Yao (Jan 04)
- HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Travis H. (Jan 17)
- RE: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Joseph Jackson (Jan 17)
- Re: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Joe Abley (Jan 18)
- Re: HTML email, was Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing Jaap Akkerhuis (Jan 18)