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from "Clive George" contains these words:
"Rusty_Hinge" wrote in message
. uk...

There would be a lot less successful malware floating round the internet
if
plain text mail was used. With Outlook Express, simply viewing an HTML
message in the preview frame is a security risk.

Any mailreader worth its salt won't display HTML - HTML in mail is
against protocols, and AUP.

And MS have significantly improved OE's security since the problems of
a few
years ago. The HTML engine is IE, so it's as secure as that, and due to the
high profile of the problems it used to have, IE is now actually pretty
secure. (unless you deliberately break it).

So I'm told - but it's a bit late now.

Still, HTML email is an abomination, but that's a different point. (not as
much an abomination as people sending bulletins/newsletters as one massive
JPG "because it looks right", but that's something I'm still working on).

Really? I had a go at one of our parish councillors for sending me a
*MASSIVE* jpeg of an A5 flyer for an event. I reduced it from over a
megabyte to about 25k without losing any detail on the A5 printout, and
sent him back the reduced one with a comment to the effect of 'Must do
better'.

He's just resigned from the council - allegedly because of the leader of
it, and there are now two places up for erect^h^h^h^election. I intend
shaking said leader by the hand - erstwhile councillor starts all sorts
of things, then loses interest. He 'maintained' the village website, and
asked for volunteers to help. I volunteered (largely to rewrite it in
proper HTML and ditch the Frontpage junk) but he didn't take me up on
the offer, and a year later had not altered one word of it.

Thinking of standing, innit.

cheers,
clive

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Rusty
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