Bless you, Bob Lee
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oozing on the muggy shore of the gulf coast
[email protected]
--- Begin Message ---Hi Solar, Thanks for the reply.Solar wrote: > Hello Tai-Pan, > > Saturday, October 13, 2001, 5:36:54 PM, you wrote: > --snip-- > > 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. -- Of course, you have received many viruses in HTML, not plain text, no one sends them in plain text any more. Plain text has a very limited number of commands, not very suitable for viruses. How much programing have you done, and in which languages ? You compile "basic" not plain text!. You compile programs, not languages! > > > 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. Thats right, they don't look right, your mail program can't handle HTML, get an up the date program, or set the preferences if you have an up to date program. All the mail I get from the list is just fine, some of it is with nice pictures or nice backgrounds, thats whats nice about HTML. Please tell the WWW (world wide web) that HTML is a waste of bandwidth. They will boo you out of existence. > > > It really is best if everyone posts to the list in plain text. No, you loose the formatting on technical posts, and loose links and other modern features. Why is your post in "charset=ISO-8859-1. Thats not a very standard format, most of the members with simple mail programs can't read that. I think it best that everyone be encouraged to get a modern up to date program. They are free for the downloading. (if thery have a browser, and they, the browsers are free, and the mail programs are included for free). Enough of this, take it off list, your wasting folks time. My apology to those who have no problem reading this. And no apology to those who can not read it, keep following those who would cripple your mail ability, and miss out on good stuff. Bless you, Bob Lee > > -oozing on the muggy shore of the gulf coast [email protected]
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