Randomthots wrote:
mark wrote:
someone else wrote:
The most prevalent means of spreading viruses is through binary
attachments to plain-text e-mail messages. Precisely the manner of
transmitting complex documents most loudly advocated for by those
opposing html-mail.
This, in fact, ain't so. I get, oh, a hundred or hundred and fifty (or
more) spams a day, and they don't usually have attachments.
I should have added that at least half or more are HTML (when I bother
to view 'em that way, if they catch my sensahumor).
First, you really need to get a better ISP. I get very few little spam,
RoadRunner, cablemodem. Also tv.... Oh, and let's not forget the spam
being forwarded to me from my email addy that I left half a continent
away, nearly three years ago (actually, several old friends have gotten
hold of my that way in the last year, so I put up with it).
And, of course, *that* ISP account got to be Verio, when they swallowed
the older ISP, which had just swallowed the ISP I signed up with....
<snip>
from the same domain and addy. Other than that, the spam I do receive is
as likely to be in plaintext as html. So htmlmail != spam. And for the
Sorry, that's not an inequality. You say "as likely to be", which
implies, as I mention, above, that half of it *is* HTML email.
Certainly, a *LOT* of the drug peddlers show one thing in plaintext, and
their sales pitch in HTML. So, spam #inludes html_and_plaintext.
<snip>
What *is* common is HTML mail with a link that says one thing... but
if you look at in as plaintext, it actually points to somewhere else.
<snip>
Different problem. This is usually connected to a phishing scam and
Or trying to lure you to their site, either for clickthoughs or pr0n....
<snip>
What's much more effective is an otherwise innocuous-appearing e-mail
from someone you know that has a binary attachment -- perhaps a Word doc
with a malicious macro. That's precisely how most of these really bad
Oh, yup. That's one thing that can get everyone. The only protection,
turning off macros, can also result in a document you need, and it
turning into a mess.
<snip>
My biggest hazard with html-mail is that I'll open a spam that will then
bang a server to get an image which confirms that my addy is live. But
Yup. Which is yet another reason that all my correspondents know that I
*only* want plaintext.
even so, if that was a huge problem I would certainly be getting more
spam than I am. And I've had this addy for the last 3 or 4 years with
little problem.
And you've missed all those wonderful slice of life stories from
Africa.... <g>
mark
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"Morality is alright, but what about dividends?"
-- Kaiser Willhem II
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