Ignatz schrieb: >"Hans Wolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > >>Many people understand that sending HTML-formatted messages is *evil*. >>A pathetic explanation may be found at: >>"http://www.kaipahl.de/brain/html_ist_boese.html"; >> >>Two weeks ago I started filtering HTML-formatted messages to a limbo >>folder. Since then I receive practically NO SPAM. All spam goes into >>the HTML limbo and then into trash. (And this is about a dozen >>messages in a slow day) >> >>- The question to you, Jay, is why sending mail in HTML format is the >>DEFAULT in Mozilla? >> >>I, for one, would have banned HTML formatting, yet as the second para >>above demonstrates, it is a good tool to separate SPAM. >> >>If HTML mail is NOT set as default, the spammers may still enjoy >>sending in this format but 95% of regular users will send their >>messages in the decades old email standard -- the text format. >> >>- A subquestion of a similar kind: why accepting javascript in email >>and news is set as DEFALUT, too? >> >>I think these are a wrong practice and need to be changed. >>Those users who want decorations would be able to turn them on and the >>majority will not support the dirty practice of spammers. >> >>Hans. >> >> >> > >I'm certainly not Jay, but my guess is AOL wants all it users to be able to >keep using all that pretty HTML and backgrounds in their e-mails. > >Eye-candy sells faster. > >iggy > > > > I used the HTML editor to compose this. Is it HTML?
- Holger
