7 Oct
2013
7 Oct
'13
11:55 a.m.
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 08:46:09PM -0400, dan@geer.org wrote:
I find the constant appearance of HTML e-mail here to be surprising. HTML improves nothing and adds risk.
A good point. I deal with that by alternative_order text/plain text/html text/enrichened auto_view text/html which calls links via /etc/mailcap text/plain; less '%s'; needsterminal text/html; /usr/bin/sensible-browser '%s'; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html ... How exploitable is /usr/bin/links?
Why not have the mailing list censored down to ASCII? Opponents are listening to be sure, but why give them injection points? Or does the libertarian ideal extend to dangerous encodings as a form of free speech?