>>I think e-mail should be text only.
>
>I disagree. Your problem is spam, not HTML. Spam is associated with
>HTML and people have in Pavlovian fashion come to hate HTML.
>
>But HTML is not the problem!
HTML enables a heck of a lot of problems: "web bugs" in email,
links to fake sites that appear as real ones in what shows up
on the screen, Javascript viruses, denial-of-service attacks
(pages that open two windows when you close one), etc.
>That is like hating all choirs because televangelists use them.
I liken it more to hating all viruses because some of them
install keyloggers.
Gordon L. Burditt
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