On 4 Mar 2007 at 11:45, Bartning@{gag,vomit,retch}aol.com wrote (or, rather, AOL (bleccch) appended):
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As if AOL wasn't already a hive of scum and villainy, now they're inflicting the above stupid ad footer on all sorts of mailing lists, complete with idiotic HTML tags even in the plain text version (which is what ends up showing up on text-only lists and digest versions).