"l v" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Xah Lee wrote: >> (circa 1996), and email should be text only (anti-MIME, circa 1995), > > I think e-mail should be text only. I have both my email and news readers > set to display in plain text only. It prevents the marketeers and > spammers from obtaining feedback that my email address is valid. A > surprising amount of information can be obtained from your computer by > allowing HTML and all of it's baggage when executing on your computer. > Phishing comes to my mind first and it works because people click the link > without looking to see where the link really takes them.
A formatting-only subset of HTML would be useful for both e-mail and Usenet posts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
