[rescue] (Offtopic) X-Message-Flag fun for Outlook users

Phil Stracchino phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net
Sat Jul 29 10:54:05 CDT 2006


der Mouse wrote:
> I don't know about anyone else's.  Here's the one I routinely use:
> 
> X-Message-Flag: Microsoft: the company who gave us the botnet zombies.
> 
> It used to say "...gave us the zombie armies" until someone
> misinterpreted it as referring to (putative) mindless hordes of human
> end users.  While that might, arguably, be a defensible stance, it's
> not the one I wanted to take, so I reworded to avoid it.

I'll cop to one (in Mutt only) that says, "This popup brought to you by
Microsoft: Enabling 98% of the world's computer viruses since 1995."


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