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Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

  • From: Alexander Harrowell
  • Date: Thu Jan 04 09:05:02 2007
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(All right then, scroll down for content :-))

On 1/4/07, [email protected] <[email protected]> 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.

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



Minority? A mail client has been standard-ish for the last three to
four years of upgrade iterations. There are a LOT of mobiles out
there. Granted not many of them are used for e-mail, but that is a
percentage that is only going to go up.

Anyway, I wouldn't write a letter with nothing worth reading on the
first page. I don't write articles with nothing in the first
paragraph. Why should over a billion users of the English language,
etc, etc..