-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <3.0.5.32.19980220184839.008d4b50@popd.ix.netcom.com>, on 02/20/98 at 09:48 PM, Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com> said:
at 03:00 AM, Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org> said:
Use mail readers that don't automatically process HTML and connect to image servers, accept cookies, or run javascripts. You are being watched by tricky defective, er, detective types. es.
Several things here:
At 02:32 AM 2/18/98 -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:
1. HTML in mail: There is just no place for this crap in e-mail. If multipart/alternative is used it is tolarable but pure text/html messages go into the bitbucket with a autoreply explaining to the poster the error of their ways. :)
HTML is a fine format for email. It's ASCII readable, and supports content description tags that the user's mail reader can render as bold/italic/underline/header-levels//color/etc. It's far superior to using bloated undocumented Microsoft Word attachments. 95% of the HTML email I get IS spam, but that's a separate problem :-) (After all, SPAMMERs like bright colored blinking attention-getting mail.)
Yes but who needs all this crap in e-mail?? E-Mail is a messaging protocol not a protocol for large documents (HTML is not sutable for large documents either but that is for another rant). WARNING: This is the only time you will see me say somthing good about MickySloth. I must admit that atleast MS Outlook follows the RFC's and makes use of multipart/alternative when sending out HTML formated messages so others are not forced to use a webbrowser to read their mail (unlike Net$cape or Eudora). There is no place for HTML in e-mail plain and simple. I do not wan't to have to load a huge bloated bugfilled webbrowser just to process my e-mail messages.
My recomendations is to dump the Netscape garbage and get a real e-mail client. Netsacpe has done a good job at screwing up the web we really don't need the same favor from them with e-mail.
Netscape mail is adequate for many people, just as Eudora is. Newer versions are pretty bloated, but including S/MIME mail encryption for everybody is a Good Thing.
Now this is really scary. You consider pushing weak 40bit S/MIME on the internet users a GoodThing(TM)? I think you need to sit down and rethink this one Bill. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://users.invweb.net/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- <HTML><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type:text/html"> <SCRIPT> function X() {var Text = "HTML is not acceptable for using in mail " + "or usenet so your browser will stop."; alert(Text); parent.close();}; </SCRIPT> </HEAD><BODY onLoad="X();return true">Hi</HTML> Tag-O-Matic: Have you crashed your Windows today? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a-sha1 Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBNO7gPo9Co1n+aLhhAQEE4QQAkukbQzy1Dtw6g/vunMEBZ2o0tLs97lzw oOAv01R/clFfPEOS64Zk+Yk+EZPg9vp++tLzgpijMOBEz0/pyEnSE3/9mCukhMm/ iQcaUy03eLm6wjK9hDOG04ktS69mVCgK49b9pmPDCdTXJz+MhNBgbenebNGa+97k eVaA0mNCgcM= =jjnj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----