Allan Wegan posted on Mon, 17 Apr 2017 22:31:36 +0200 as excerpted: >> Please turn off the HTML posts. > > His post is a multipart message containing an additional plaintext > version. If you saw the HTML version, your client is broken or > misconfigured.
My client presented both versions as plain text, as arguably it should (because some broken clients don't send an appropriate plain text version if they're sending an HTML message). But HTML when presented as such in mail or news is simply a vulnerability vector waiting to be exploited, and plenty of senders do just that with spyware (web bugs being the simplest) and malware. So no responsible person will allow HTML mail to be processed and displayed as such on their machines, which in turn means no responsible person should choose to send it. Of course there's also the argument that some on the list may be paying by the MB/GB, and sending HTML alone, and even more /both/ HTML and plain text, bloats the message and thus the price they pay. Both of these for no reason but selfishness and the want to abuse others just because one can, or in best case (which I believe this was), because the sender simply didn't care enough about their readers to actually check and see, before sending. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
