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Re: Topica acting strange again?

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Apr 17, 2001
• 350 views

Al Getz writes:
> The following line contains only a string of "-" (minus) chars:

A tool is being used to strip advertising 
out of messages (before Topica inserts more ads).
The tool looks for long lines of dashes, equals signs 
and other patterns. The test is not perfect, 
but I'd rather lose an innocent line here and there, 
than be overwhelmed with ads. The fact that you are 
the first person in more than a month to notice anything 
shows the tool is working well. 

Many people have their e-mail client set up
to automatically quote the entire message
they are replying to... "Original Message Follows"...
including all the ads. They are too lazy to do selective
quoting or strip out any ads, so the tool does it for them. 
Many people have Yahoo and Hotmail ads at the 
end of their messages. Without this ad-stripper, you'd 
see far more ads than we have now.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com