"Mike Schilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "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.
Used to be that the formatting-only subset of HTML was called HTML. Used to be that people were wise to itinerant kooks such as the OP. Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
