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Allan Wegan posted on Mon, 17 Apr 2017 22:31:36 +0200 as excerpted: |
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>> Please turn off the HTML posts. |
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> His post is a multipart message containing an additional plaintext |
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> version. If you saw the HTML version, your client is broken or |
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> misconfigured. |
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My client presented both versions as plain text, as arguably it should |
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(because some broken clients don't send an appropriate plain text version |
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if they're sending an HTML message). |
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But HTML when presented as such in mail or news is simply a vulnerability |
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vector waiting to be exploited, and plenty of senders do just that with |
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spyware (web bugs being the simplest) and malware. |
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So no responsible person will allow HTML mail to be processed and |
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displayed as such on their machines, which in turn means no responsible |
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person should choose to send it. |
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Of course there's also the argument that some on the list may be paying |
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by the MB/GB, and sending HTML alone, and even more /both/ HTML and plain |
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text, bloats the message and thus the price they pay. |
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Both of these for no reason but selfishness and the want to abuse others |
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just because one can, or in best case (which I believe this was), because |
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the sender simply didn't care enough about their readers to actually |
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check and see, before sending. |
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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 |
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