Dear Alexander,

@5-Feb-2005, 13:44 +0100 (05-Feb 12:44 UK time) Alexander S. Kunz
[ASK] in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Thorvald:

>> I am fully aware of the security risks of HTML emails.

ASK> Could you name one, please. Talking about security, not privacy. Talking
ASK> about pure HTML (not javascript, and not ActiveX, either).

Giving away the IP address of the recipient when reading an HTML mail
with embedded images, providing feedback to spammers that the message
arrived.

That's one. There are others. Downloading *anything* at the behest of
an *email* is fundamentally a security breach - it's not the way email
is supposed to work.

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Cheers --  //.arck D Pearlstone -- List moderator and fellow end user
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