On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 23:35:40 GMT, Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted :
>If people want me to read their email, they should send it to me >in an open, universal format, which for email is plain text. It's >as simple as that. This is pulling a King Canute. There is not even a mechanism in email protocols to warn your correspondents of your demand. I have been bugging Eudora for years for at least a bit in the address book to record the recipient's preference for plain or formatted emails. They have so far ignored me. There is nothing wrong with formatted text. You are confusing formatted text with spam. You think you hated formatted text, but you really hate spam. If your lover sent you a message with photo, and even musical accompaniment, I doubt you would feel offended. It is the CONTENT bugging you, not the HTML. You imagine that the two are inexplicably linked. That is just because the technology is immature. There is no fundamental reason that formatted spam should have an easier time penetrating your defenses than plain text spam. I am using Spamnix. It think it leaks about 50/50 formatted and plain text spam. Eudora warns you of deceptive links in HTML. There are many more such things that have yet to be done to deal with malicious emails. I think we should focus on those rather than reverting to the days of the TTY.I don't think it would buy you much. Formatted emails can't hurt you if you don't allow them to automatically run any code. It is unfair to blame formatting for the foolish practice off allowing untrusted code to run without even an ok. They have nothing to do with each other. -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Again taking new Java programming contracts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
