l v wrote:
> 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
Be generous in what you accept and conservative in what you send ;)
I always send plaintext emails, but Thunderbird can also display HTML.
Of course I don't let it load remote images in the HTML, so no feedback
for the marketers.
> 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.
When that HTML execution accesses further remote resources.
> Phishing comes to my mind first and it works because people click the
> link without looking to see where the link really takes them.
That's a problem, yes. As usual, education helps.
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