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Jonathan Schaeffer posted <d60596f505071101173d7f4c2b@××××××××××.com>, |
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excerpted below, on Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:17:26 +0200: |
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> ------=_Part_1512_4524190.1121069846262 Content-Type: text/html; |
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> charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable |
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> <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2005/7/10, Tres Melton <<a |
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> href="mailto:tres@××××××××××.com">tres@××××××××××.com</a>>:</span><blockquote |
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> class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); |
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OK, it appears you use gmail, so could reasonably miss this option, but |
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please turn off the sending of HTML formatted mail to this and other Linux |
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lists you may be subscribed to. Within the open source community, HTML |
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formatted mail is (IMO rightfully) blamed for much of the malware epidemic |
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we have today. Consider what percentage of those email based attacks |
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would have been possible if clients stuck to plain text formatting -- very |
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few of them. For that reason and because HTML mail also tends to be a |
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favorite of the spammer set (for several reasons including the ability to |
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use web bugs, and a couple additional tricks for bypassing mail filters), |
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it is considered in poor taste to send HTML messages to most open source |
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newsgroups or mailinglists. Many choose to filter it out entirely, or |
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killfile those that use it. Even when they don't, using the format is |
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akin to putting up a huge blinking NEWBIE AOLER STYLE USER INSENSITIVE TO |
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THE OBSERVED NORMS OF THE LIST/GROUP sign on every message sent. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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