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Sorry Duncan, I wasn't aware I was sending HTML code, and I totaly |
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agree with you. |
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I disabled this option... |
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2005/7/11, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>: |
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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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> -- |
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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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