On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 08:36:52PM +0200, Jacob Palme wrote:
> At 10.11 -0600 0-05-11, Vernon Schryver wrote:
> > Once you restrict
> > HTML based email enough to be safe, why bother with anything more than
> > text and perhaps simple pictures?
> What is wrong with that. I use HTML-based e-mail mostly to
> inluce pictures in my messages.
> A very useful way of using HTML-based e-mail would also be
> to send out forms and fill them in via mail, but this does
> not work so well because some mailers does not handle such
> messages very good yet.
And of course, a day after posting my earlier reply to this message,
I receive this example of how useful HTML is in E-Mail:
[...]
] X-Mailer: DiffondiCool V3.1.1 (W95/NT) Delfino Solutions (Build: Nov 7 1998)
] Mime-Version: 1.0
] Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 21:33:03 +0800
] Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_007F_01BDF6C7.FABAC1B0"
] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
]
] This is a MIME Message
]
] ------=_NextPart_000_007F_01BDF6C7.FABAC1B0
] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
]
]
] ------=_NextPart_000_007F_01BDF6C7.FABAC1B0
] Content-Type: text/html; name="unknown.htm"
] Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
] Content-Description: unknown.htm
] Content-Disposition: inline; filename="unknown.htm"
]
] <html><head>
] <meta http-equiv=3D"refresh" content=3D"0;URL=3Dhttp://myad.cn99.com">
] </head></html>
]
] ------=_NextPart_000_007F_01BDF6C7.FABAC1B0--
Well gooollllleeeyyyy. I wonder what that piece of crap was
suppose to do. I'll bet this spammer thought I was stupid enough to
be using an HTML enabled reader that would just bounce me right to
his spam site where he would not only hit me with his cruft but
he would also know that his E-Mail hit paydirt and he had a good
address on this host. All without any active content at all. Oh
well... Guess he failed on this one. How many chumps do you think
he might have succeeded with?
I got hit with three copies of it (various permutations of
my addresses). I'll probably see more before the day is out. BTW...
According to the Received-By headers, the point of origin was in .cn,
so it will be a bloody cold day in hell before I'm able to do anything
about this clown. Grrr...
If people wouldn't use HTML readers, this trick wouldn't work
at all, and I wouldn't have to tolerate this cruft (yes, I know, they
would try something else but at least it wouldn't be this morally
offensive).
> --
> Jacob Palme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Stockholm University and KTH)
> for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/
Mike
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