Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 8, 2004, at 2:48 PM, cwsiv wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-11-06 at 17:39, tony wrote:
> > On Nov 6, 2004, at 5:24 PM, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> > > There is no objective reason to prohibit or even discourage mark-up 
> > > in
> > > email and on Usenet.
> >
> > Is it not true that, at least on a Windows box, an html message is a
> > favorite vehicle for script kiddies to send viruses?
>
> Yes.  Therefore if we are in the habit of lecturing windows users not
> ready to join us about security its behoves us not to be hypocritical.
> If we tell them to avoid text mail for security and privacy reasons 
> then
> we should do the same.
>
> Should the windows user ask why text its a chance to teach them.

That's been my approach with my windoze-only wife, who has sometimes 
e-mailed me with html.  She did not even know that her mail client was 
sending html, did not know what plain text was, did not know that there 
was a preference, did not know there was a possible issue one way or 
the other.