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[Ioannis V. <no...@ho...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hongli Lai [mailto:h....@ch...] 
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 9:23 PM
> To: Ioannis Vranos
> Cc: Dev-C++ Mailing List
> Subject: RE: Re[2]: [Dev-C++] Using the Resource Editor
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 18:51, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> > Not possible if you disable scripting. And it is disabled 
> by default in
> > the latest versions.
> >
> > Except of this in a philosophical note, if someone decides 
> to send you a
> > script virus, Bob has nothing to do with it. So your remark 
> has more to
> > do with whether email programs should support scripting in the first
> > place and i agree with you that they should not. But it has 
> nothing to
> > do with HTML itself. But all the decent email clients even 
> though they
> > may support scripts, they have it disabled by default and i 
> think it is
> > great.
> >
> 
> You can't embed scripts that automatically execute itself in non-HTML
> mail.
> In HTML mail, it's as easy as putting a <SCRIPT> tag in the mail.

Yes and as i said you can disable scripting inside the client. Except of
that, one can send you a binary virus (that is a real virus) or
something else nusty attached with a text email. This doesn't mean that
text is unsafe. But i can't understand the readability problems, since
in GNU, UNIX etc any decent X-Windows, etc email client supports html.
Except of that, the email clients that send html emails also send a pure
text copy in the same email so as people using older clients like pine
to be able to read it too. So the solution is not to disable HTML, just
stop using pine. :) Of course i do not expect any solution anytime soon.


Ioannis

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