Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms'

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Hi Kerry,

No question about it, things would be a whole lot better if
nobody sent html emails - I only wanted to point out that many
html emails can readily be handled by pine (and perhaps other
mail readers) and also that html email comes with and without
viruses as do plain text emails - banning html is no protection
against viruses.

Chuck


On Wed, 15 May 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote:

> Chuck I should point out that certain versions
> of pine have contained buffer overflows in the html processing elements
> and so did older versions of mutt and lynx.
> I am not taking a stand one way or the other regarding html messages
> except to say that there are dangers in html;
> more so for Windows users than Linux ones but the Linux dangers
> exist as well.
> I don't mind html if there is an equivalent plain text section,
> but replying to html only messages causes me grief.
> I for my own reasons choose to send to mailing lists in plain text
> to minimize bandwidth usage and also message bloat.
> I encourage people to set their look out distress
> settings to send in plain text where possible but let it reply to a message
> in the format it was received in.
>
> Regards, Kerry.
> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:16:13AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> >
> > I am still a pine user, and on my system pine reads html messages
> > transparently, no problem. HTML has nothing to do with most
> > viruses. Executable attachments that launch themselves are the
> > real problem.
> >
> > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Steve Holmes wrote:
> >
> > > Since I've been using mutt to read my mail, I really haven't been
> > > affected either way with HTML mail.  When I used pine, it was an
> > > annoyance but no more than that.  But I think I would favor a blockage
> > > of HTML mail since the reasons sighted below and some people still use
> > > windows mailers on the list; so go for it!
> > >
> > > On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 07:48:26PM +0100, 'Georgina' wrote:
> > > > Hi All
> > > >
> > > > Because of the use of html messages being used to transmit Windows
> > > > viruses, I wondered if folks would agree to having list messages
> > > > restricted to plain text only?
> > > >
> > > > The list owner will act upon whatever the consensus is.
> > > >
> > > > Gena
> > > >
> > > > Have your say:
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> > > >
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> > > > http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
> > > >
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