Re: making posts unreadable for google groupers?

me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Ralph Fox <-rf-nz-@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:9bm4f3dfene3q33h6erbri76no01o35ce4@xxxxxxx:

On 20 Sep 2007 10:32:38 GMT, in message
<slrnff4j3f.gbv.no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Blinky the
Shark wrote:

X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black;
TextColor=black

Unfortunately, viewing the larger picture shows this:
When people use such kludges to obscure the content of
their Usenet messages, they are handing the Google
Groupers a WIN, by requiring NON-Google-Groupers to change
THEIR Usenet participation habits by adding another step.
This is a bad idea: giving Google Groupers any wins is
counterproductive.


Back in the DejaNews days, one could put HTML code into
message headers and have Deja interpret it as HTML. So for
example

| Organization: <script
| type="text/javascript">top.location.replace("http://some.
| where.else/");</script>

That was no more an extra step than is your WebTV header.


Ralph,

I think Blinky is talking about Usenet readers. His black-on-
black is "his thing" which does not bother other Usenet folks.
IOW, I don't have to do anything in order to read his posts.
OTOH, I have to rummage through the menu (WTH is it?) for ROT-
13.

Excatly. And even if you *know* how to reform the ROT13, it's still
making you perform an extra step, and therefore to be avoided.

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