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From: Hongli L. <h....@ch...> - 2002-05-16 12:43:47
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Bob Wilson wrote: > 1. Yes, I am sending an email, the purpose of which is to transmit > information. Understanding is enhanced with good formatting > which is allowed with automated html email programs such as > Outlook or Outlook Express. > Your message only contains a few lines of bold text. How does such a formatting "enhance" the understanding. > This is the real problem, your environment or at least your email program. Emails were designed to display well *everywhere*. Which email client I'm using should not matter. This is exactly the problem: you'll have to use Windows just to be able to read emails well. > It is certainly true that I or anyone else can build an html file > which will do nasty things, but the programs that generate html > enabled emails (Outlook, Outlook Express) will not activate a virus > without the active involvement of the person who receives the email. If MS just ditch HTML and script support, invisible script viruses would not exist at all. > > Again it is your environment that is the problem. > ** This is not "my" environment, I'm talking about the mailing list's email archive here! You're messing up the archive, so no matter which browser/OS/computer/whatever you're using, if you look at the HTML mails in the archive, you will only see HTML tags. |