AlanHo Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 Like many of us, I have received totally blank Emails from unknown sources - clearly spam but why blank.I received one today and - on the advice of a friend - clicked the cursor in the message body and dragged it down. Sure enough it highlighted some invisible text - presumably white text on a white background.You learn something every day - don't you...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nellie2 Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 who would have thought that!!... I delete my spam before it even gets downloaded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 who would have thought that!!... I delete my spam before it even gets downloadedSo do I, using Mailwasher. Haven't had any for ages though, since changing my e mail address again. I reckon that most of what I had previously was as a result of entering competitions on the Classic FM site. I was probably spammed by the companies running the competitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thos Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 I haven't had any either since moving over to Sky, and I am trying to restrict use of my new addres to prolong this happy state as long as I can. The trick of white text on white background was disclosed on this forum only a short while ago. Wasn't it by pops?Thos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 My idea of white text on a white ground was a trick I offered someone who was designing a fill-in form.It used to be quite a common thing in all sorts of documents published on the web - including "official" ones and you could find quite a lot of hidden stuff by highlighting and changing the text colour. Not done so much now as too many people know about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 My idea of white text on a white ground was a trick I offered someone who was designing a fill-in form.It used to be quite a common thing in all sorts of documents published on the web - including "official" ones and you could find quite a lot of hidden stuff by highlighting and changing the text colour. Not done so much now as too many people know about it.How about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 My idea of white text on a white ground was a trick I offered someone who was designing a fill-in form.It used to be quite a common thing in all sorts of documents published on the web - including "official" ones and you could find quite a lot of hidden stuff by highlighting and changing the text colour. Not done so much now as too many people know about it.How about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 Not quite because we're not on a white background. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thos Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 Yes. I can read those without highlighting.Thos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 Not quite because we're not on a white background.Nearly though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 But if you use a "spoiler" tag, you won't be able to read anything without selecting the text. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thos Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 But if you use a "spoiler" tag, you won't be able to read anything without selecting the text.But you know there is something there, whereas with white on white you don't.Thos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 This is a translation of Pats quote.But if you use a "spoiler" tag, you won't be able to read anything without selecting the text.[/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thos Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 This is a translation of Pats quote.But if you use a "spoiler" tag, you won't be able to read anything without selecting the text.[/?????Can't understand why it was felt necessary to point that out?Thos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 This is a translation of Pats quote.But if you use a "spoiler" tag, you won't be able to read anything without selecting the text.[/?????Can't understand why it was felt necessary to point that out?Thos.Is this addressed to Pat or me? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gagaman Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 If you use this hex colorcode: #EFEBDE, the text is exactly the same as the backgroundcolor of the windowsforum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thos Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 Good one Gagaman!Thos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Quite comical that one. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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