-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 March 2004 07:19, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 00:55 3/7/2004, you wrote: > >two words...... security & efficiency. > But HTML itself is not the root cause of the problem. I discovered that around 80% of my email is HTML spam. They like the extra markup to do 72pt Red text and so on. So now I get KMail to put any email with HTML tags that didn't already match another rule into the trash marked as read. Every day or two I go through it looking for worthwhile mail, I generally find one a week. Fact is for me almost all my worthwhile email is on a mailing list or from plaintext or encrypted plaintext senders. The issue is that whereas a plaintext mail is just 'data' for the client, an HTML email is in effect a network-aware script. Depending on the content it will make your machine go on to the internet and download arbitrary stuff. Consider a cheap way for spammers to DDoS someone would be to spam people with HTML emails full of img tags to the site they want to attack. I know there is a certain elitism associated with plaintext, top-post, excessive quoting, etc, but each has a reasoning. If you need the formatting and images knock up a pdf. Otherwise just give us the meat of your words. - -Andy - -- Find your answer without waiting for replies.... Searchable list archives at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFASwcwjKeDCxMJCTIRAqWnAJ42/IyM5thOc9UUs2rdtVyLF7ftmwCeNnB0 dHFchcY0i0IaP/gvuMQ/GF8= =0h5E -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
