Hello Tai-Pan, Saturday, October 13, 2001, 5:36:54 PM, you wrote:
TP> Hi jr,[email protected] wrote: TP> --snip--Re mail programs, HTML allows virus contamination; plain text does not. TP> jr TP> Another "urban legend" TP> Viruses happen because of the way some "programs are written", TP> the language of a program has nothing to do with it. TP> Plain text, HTML, any language, can have viruses written using TP> them. Even in DOS days we had viruses. In principle, you are right Bob. But, the fact of the matter is that when written in plain text, it is NOT executed. HTML has the ability to cause the client to call an embedded script, which can be one of a destructive nature. I have received many, many hostile scripts embedded into an HTML email. But, because my mail client is set to only read plain text, no harm was ever done. Nor can it be. Besides, plain text is not a language. While you can program in plain text, it must either be compiled, or sent to an interpreter. Besides, all of those fancy HTML emails are a total waste of time and bandwidth on a listserver. As has been presented here before, a lot of the time they don't even come out looking like they are supposed to, ie dark text on a dark background. It really is best if everyone posts to the list in plain text. -- Best regards, Solar mailto:[email protected] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
