[geeks] Anti-html Letter

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

>>>>> "Greg" == Greg A Woods <woods at weird.com> writes:

    Greg> [ On Wednesday, February 20, 2002 at 16:00:13 (-0500), Mike
    Greg> Nicewonger wrote: ]
    >> Subject: Re: [geeks] Anti-html Letter
    >> 
    >> on 2/20/02 2:55 PM, Greg A. Woods at woods at weird.com wrote:
    >> 
    >> > [ On Tuesday, February 19, 2002 at 15:51:22 (-0800), Ron
    >> Rosson wrote: ] >> Subject: [geeks] Anti-html Letter
    >> >> 
    >> >> Has anyone put together any verbiage on why not to send
    >> e-mail >> formatted in HTML. Looking for one.
    >> > 
    >> > I just say it in one sentence:
    >> > 
    >> > Please DO NOT EVER post HTML-formatted e-mail to public
    >> mailling > lists, or to me personally.
    >> 
    >> While I agree with your responce and often respond the same way
    >> I them end up having to explain to the clueless $LUSER why this
    >> is so. I too would like to see a to the point explaination
    >> other than it is just plain wring and non standards compliant.

    Greg> HTML is (or at least may be) a security threat when it is
    Greg> used within an e-mail message, even with relatively safely
    Greg> implemented parsers like w3 in emacs.  There have been many
    Greg> (hundreds? thousands?) of related postings on BUGTRAQ and
    Greg> similar forums.  HTML in e-mail is EVIL!

    Greg> Even worse many people read e-mail with tools that can only
    Greg> show plain text, and forcing a human to parse HTML just to
    Greg> read the content of an e-mail message is downright cruel and
    Greg> unusual punishment!

Greg,
  Since you mentioned emacs I will give you the link that brought me
  to posting this topic to geeks. This link is an ADDON to VM for
  emacs for anyone who is interested. (Also could use some help if
  anyone else finds this piece of lisp code useful ( found a few
  things I can not figure out))

	http://student.uq.edu.au/~s323140/pcrisis/

-Ron