Hi Kerry. Well said, no doubt on your statements. I remember the days back when plain text was perhaps the only method for sending e-mail (late 80's early 90's). Those were the good days! Gates go to hell, your OS is waiting for you there! On Wed, 15 May 2002, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > Hi Kerry, > > No question about it, things would be a whole lot better if > nobody sent html emails - I only wanted to point out that many > html emails can readily be handled by pine (and perhaps other > mail readers) and also that html email comes with and without > viruses as do plain text emails - banning html is no protection > against viruses. > > Chuck > > > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote: > > > Chuck I should point out that certain versions > > of pine have contained buffer overflows in the html processing elements > > and so did older versions of mutt and lynx. > > I am not taking a stand one way or the other regarding html messages > > except to say that there are dangers in html; > > more so for Windows users than Linux ones but the Linux dangers > > exist as well. > > I don't mind html if there is an equivalent plain text section, > > but replying to html only messages causes me grief. > > I for my own reasons choose to send to mailing lists in plain text > > to minimize bandwidth usage and also message bloat. > > I encourage people to set their look out distress > > settings to send in plain text where possible but let it reply to a message > > in the format it was received in. > > > > Regards, Kerry. > > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:16:13AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > > > > > > I am still a pine user, and on my system pine reads html messages > > > transparently, no problem. HTML has nothing to do with most > > > viruses. Executable attachments that launch themselves are the > > > real problem. > > > > > > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > > > > > Since I've been using mutt to read my mail, I really haven't been > > > > affected either way with HTML mail. When I used pine, it was an > > > > annoyance but no more than that. But I think I would favor a blockage > > > > of HTML mail since the reasons sighted below and some people still use > > > > windows mailers on the list; so go for it! > > > > > > > > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:48:26PM +0100, 'Georgina' wrote: > > > > > Hi All > > > > > > > > > > Because of the use of html messages being used to transmit Windows > > > > > viruses, I wondered if folks would agree to having list messages > > > > > restricted to plain text only? > > > > > > > > > > The list owner will act upon whatever the consensus is. > > > > > > > > > > Gena > > > > > > > > > > Have your say: > > > > > Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org > > > > > > > > > > Please don't send me MS Word documents, see > > > > > http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > > > > > > > > Personal Contact Details: > > > > > E-mail: gena at gena-j.net WWW: http://www.gena-j.net ICQ: 144169465 > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > > > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (10% of Full) > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > -- > Visit me at http://www.valstar.net/~hallenbeck > The Moon is Waxing Crescent (10% of Full) > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
