Klarinet Archive - Posting 000532.txt from 2004/11

From: Audrey Travis <vsofan@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Klarinet List Technical Question
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:21:00 -0500

John Dablin wrote:

> HTML is the language used to write web pages. E-mail programs adopted
> it as
>
>an easy way to dress up e-mails with pictures, text formatting, special fonts
>and so on. However, the picture might be downloaded from a server when you
>read the e-mail, thus telling a spammer that your address is a real one
>(whoopee!! Let's send her lots more, and tell all the other spammers). Even
>worse, the HTML can contain scripts which exploit security loopholes and do
>heaven knows what harm to your computer. Very wisely, Mark blocks all HTML
>mails on the list, and only accepts plain text.
>
>John Dablin
>Aylesbury UK
>
>Thanks for the explanation.
>
>

A.

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