On 9/26/01 9:44 PM, "Russ Allbery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> *shrug* A growing number of corporate firewalls reject mail with active > content. Either way, you lose. Yup. Sort of my point. There's no 100% solutions here. > Personally, I'd be willing to bet that > the number of firewalls that reject attachments with .gif or .jpg > extensions and the correct MIME types (making them as innocuous as content > can possibly get in e-mail, really) is going to stay smaller than the > number of firewalls that reject active content like <img src> tags. Based on my data, you'd lose that bet. This is something we track, FWIW. > Either way, you're cutting yourself off from some users. As soon as you move from text, you do. By staying WITH text, you do -- yes, we've had people leave our lists because the list we were sending them wasn't HTML. If you twirl the dead chicken in the data center four times instead of five, you'll lose them... > So it's just a > matter of reading tea leaves to try to guess which set is bigger. There are better tools than tea leaves, but it takes work. > I don't think what e-mail client the person is using has much influence on > whether they decide to block active content. > > Actually, I take that back. If the administrator is running OE, I bet > they're a lot *more* likely to block active content because they could get > nailed by it themselves, whereas the person running ELM is probably > thinking "if you run Windows, you get what you deserve" at least part of > the time. One would HOPE your IS people are more sensitive to the customer needs than that. But -- many times, they aren't. But you're stll basically right. Certain technologies lend themselves to being more sensitive to these issues than others -- and they also have tools that can be better adapted to implementing policies than others (or abusing those policies, or screwing them up, or... I've been having, ofr instance, a running discussion with one site with a few users subscribed to my lists over their content filters. For some reason, they won't allow Igor Livshits to e-mail to anyone on their site. And they refuse to understand the concept of the false positive, and why this causes us to keep unsubscribing their users from our lists... And I feel for the users, but I'm tired of their site bouncing mail for stupid reasons..)
