Re: AOL changing subject headers?

[Joe Smith]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 01:45:26PM -0400, Tom Neff wrote:
> I disagree, because MLM authors have a duty to avoid relying on dangerous
> syntaxes like BestServ's pointy-delimited ID string.

What exactly is dangerous about angle brackets <> in the Subject: line?

> It's much harder for
> AOL to try and be "super-smart" to protect its members from malicious HTML

How can angle brackets in a subject line be "malicious HTML"?

HTML, if present, is in the body of the message, not the headers.
        -Joe

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