Robin Laing wrote:
Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 22:31 -0500, mark wrote:
Then, of course, there's the LARGE number of us who DESPISE HTML mail
(aka virus-spreader email), and who REALLY DO NOT WANT to HAVE to open
a goddamned dog-slow word processor to read our email. (We won't even
*begin* to talk about idiots who send out .pdf email....)
Viruses in e-mail are a problem specific to Windows. In fact, I don't
No, they're not. It's only that 90% or higher of all viruses are
targeted towards Windows, for 2 reasons: first, that Windows is what 86%
or so of all computers are running, and second, because M$ products have
*SO* many bugs (aka virus hooks) and are installed by default insecurely.
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But you're right, usually HTML mail is just plain unnecessary.
Actually, if you have a mail browser that isn't capable or configure to
view html, you will see the message repeated. Once in plain text and
once in html.
*sigh*
That's as bad as the insulting email "get an HTML-capable email viewer"
on a spam. Unless you're running pine or mutt, etc, from a command line,
I don't know of a single email tool that *doesn't* support HTML email.
Rather, we set the option to DENY HTML email.
Further, most of the damn spam does *not* show the same. In plain text,
for example, you see a bunch of garbage - random words or paragraphs,
etc, while in HTML you see the actual ad.
mark
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