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SPAM and why do they all seem to use ALL CAPS
Is it because they want it to be easy to spot their SPAM?
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SPAM and why do they all seem to use ALL CAPS
"Joseph Meehan" wrote in message ... Is it because they want it to be easy to spot their SPAM? -- Joseph Meehan Dia duit For most of the scams they post it should be obvious that they are ignorant and don't understand proper punctuation. |
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SPAM and why do they all seem to use ALL CAPS
Joseph Meehan wrote:
Is it because they want it to be easy to spot their SPAM? No. Its because it takes a certain ignorance to even engage in spamming. These type of people won't comprehend that ALL CAPS is just stupid. Then again, they are not really targeting you or me. Of course I got an email from Redhat about a month ago saying "ACCOUNT WILL BE CANCELED" Which I was about to delete then went ahead and check and was astonished these idiots sent a legitimate email with a stupid title like that... -- Thank you, "Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard." Ecclesiastes 9:16 |
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SPAM and why do they all seem to use ALL CAPS
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:22:20 GMT, "Joseph Meehan"
wrote: Is it because they want it to be easy to spot their SPAM? A lot of spam has meaningless numbers at the end of the subject line too (sometimes with all caps and weird punctuation too). Maybe: LONGER P,E.N'I~S FREE!!!!!!!!!!! 6781 -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin |
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SPAM and why do they all seem to use ALL CAPS
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:22:20 GMT, "Joseph Meehan"
wrote: | Is it because they want it to be easy to spot their SPAM? | | -- | Joseph Meehan Many, perhaps most, email and newsgroup postings have limited typographic options -- a single font in a fixed size, no italic, no boldface. The sender has no control over the end result. Spammers want to grab attention, and think that using all caps is a way to emphasize the message. In my second career as a print graphics designer, I found that most of my clients who did not have a graphics background liked heavy, sans-serif typefaces and wanted to use at least six different fonts, lots of type sizes, plenty of gratuitous italics, and ... you guessed it ... lots of all-cap headlines and subheads. "For emphasis," they said. They ended up emphasizing everything, so the effect was to emphasize nothing. And of course using all caps often makes headlines, or even a single word, harder to read. Books and newspapers are not printed in all caps for this reason. Part of my job was to dissuade clients from doing this and create instead an attractive, easy to read design. |
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SPAM and why do they all seem to use ALL CAPS
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Cue wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:22:20 GMT, "Joseph Meehan" wrote: | Is it because they want it to be easy to spot their SPAM? | | -- | Joseph Meehan Many, perhaps most, email and newsgroup postings have limited typographic options -- a single font in a fixed size, no italic, no boldface. The sender has no control over the end result. Spammers want to grab attention, and think that using all caps is a way to emphasize the message. .... I have no spam filtering except my own D key -- so I get to see every one. Never, I think, have I seen one in all caps. Not in *my* email, at least. THUS, I tell people who want to email me, to USE all caps, so I'll know it's NOT spam. Strange, this email spamming. David |
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