Yet another reason why HTML e-mail is evil and plain text rules. :-) - ferg
-- "John LaCour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I see the same thing. Outlook 2003 11.8010.8107 SP2 I think Outlook is just slow rendering the HTML. It may be going out and grabbing the the page as well. Haven't bothered looking at a sniffer... On 11/8/06, Krpata, Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can't replicate the problem here, Outlook 2003 11.8026.8036 SP2 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard M. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:21 PM > To: 'FunSec [List]' > Subject: [funsec] What's up with Slashdot and Outlook > > Hi, > > Does anyone on the list have a theory of why copying text from a > Slashdot > Web page and pasting it into an new HTML email message in Outlook 2003 > is > very slow? I just timed a simple paste operation from Slashdot and it > took > 35 seconds for Outlook to do the operation. Something doesn't seem > right. > > Here is the test I'm running: > > 1. Start Outlook and open up a new HTML email > message. > > 2. Start IE and go to slashdot.org > > 3. Select the word "Posted" in the first Slashdot message > and copy it to the clipboard > > 4. Paste the word into the HTML email message > > 5. Wait for 35 seconds as Outlook "thinks". > > Thanks, > Richard M. Smith > http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com > > P.S. I don't see the problem on any other Web site. > -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
