HTML Links on Evolution
Andy Green
fedora at warmcat.com
Sun Mar 7 11:27:44 UTC 2004
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On Sunday 07 March 2004 07:19, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 00:55 3/7/2004, you wrote:
> >two words...... security & efficiency.
> But HTML itself is not the root cause of the problem.
I discovered that around 80% of my email is HTML spam. They like the extra
markup to do 72pt Red text and so on. So now I get KMail to put any email
with HTML tags that didn't already match another rule into the trash marked
as read. Every day or two I go through it looking for worthwhile mail, I
generally find one a week. Fact is for me almost all my worthwhile email is
on a mailing list or from plaintext or encrypted plaintext senders.
The issue is that whereas a plaintext mail is just 'data' for the client, an
HTML email is in effect a network-aware script. Depending on the content it
will make your machine go on to the internet and download arbitrary stuff.
Consider a cheap way for spammers to DDoS someone would be to spam people
with HTML emails full of img tags to the site they want to attack.
I know there is a certain elitism associated with plaintext, top-post,
excessive quoting, etc, but each has a reasoning. If you need the formatting
and images knock up a pdf. Otherwise just give us the meat of your words.
- -Andy
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