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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 |
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> should (because some broken clients don't send an appropriate plain |
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> text version if they're sending an HTML message). |
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The rare cases with no plaintext part can be handled by switching to the |
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source view. That cases are easily detected by the absence of any body |
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text in the plaintext view. |
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> But HTML when presented as such in mail or news is simply a |
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> vulnerability vector waiting to be exploited, and plenty of senders |
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> do just that with spyware (web bugs being the simplest) and malware. |
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Of course it is. Everything, that gets interpreted in any way, is |
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(including the whole email). |
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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 |
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> responsible person should choose to send it. |
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So you chosed to not process HTML in emails because of the security |
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implications. That is fine (even if it leaves me wondering how the web |
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looks like on your machine). |
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I dislike HTML in emails too (mostly because of common convoluted table |
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designs and ugly font/color choices). But others seem to like it and so |
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they use it. They either do not care or come to other conclusions |
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regarding the buggyness of current HTML/image parsers and the uglyness |
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of most HTML mails out there... |
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Fortunately one can chose whether to display that HTML or not - even if |
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some obviously have chosen to not use that freedom. |
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HTML mail is all about choice too. |
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Allan Wegan |
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<http://www.allanwegan.de/> |
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Jabber: allanwegan@××××××.net |
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OTR-Fingerprint: E4DCAA40 4859428E B3912896 F2498604 8CAA126F |
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Jabber: allanwegan@××××××××××.de |
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OTR-Fingerprint: A1AAA1B9 C067F988 4A424D33 98343469 29164587 |
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ICQ: 209459114 |
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