On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 05:00:56PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
> Preferences->Advanced, uncheck "Enable Javascript for Mail and
> Newsgroups". Unless I am missing something, I have never heard of a
> vulnerability that can be exploited without javascript...
What about those annoying spam auto refresh bounces. Don't yah
just love it when your boss walks up just as your E-Mail bounces you to
some spammers porno site...
Okkk... An there there are web bugs. The little goodies that
pull a special identifying image from their web site identifying your
E-Mail address as a good one and worth putting on their platinum "we've
qualified this address as good" list that they sell to other spammers.
Reading spam in an HTML enabled reader is an incredibly good way to
increase your spam traffic. The more you get the more you are qualified.
Then there is version two of the web bugs. Images on anonymous
ftp sites where your browser delivers your E-Mail address to the anonftp
site for addition to a spammer list. (Ok... That one doesn't work NEARLY
as well as the one above since a lot of browsers don't supply an E-Mail
address in the password for anonymous ftp). Quite a few spammers use
both techniques in combination.
No... There is plenty of mayhem that trouble makers can do without
resorting to Java or Javascript. Unfortunately.
HTML is simply inappropriate in E-Mail.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 03:12:18 +1030, David Simpson
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I'm obviously not one of your clients then. The only HTML mail I
> >>receive is SPAM and I don't want that at all. Plain text for me every
> >>day.
> >>
> >
> >
> >Thank you YES
> >
> >I also think that the HTML opens you up to certain vulnerabilities.
> >Is there a simple HTML that can be implemented? So some people can
> >have their colored 24 point fonts with italics without the whole web
> >page layout stuff.
> >
> >Scoobie
> >
>
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