Again, I must respectfully disagree with you. Unless they can come up with another way to dress up plain ol text between friends and family, it will stay. Most people want eye candy and without it they will move on. Linux does not need the various GUI's to operate, but in order to get more people on board it is necessary to make it more flashy and the same goes with email. It does not need flashy to work but that is what many many many many people want. You can rant and rave about it all you want but that is life. It is not about what makes it work but about what people want.
Yes there are security risks involved but anytime you make things easier, you risk security. Russ ----- Original Message ----- > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 09:23:18AM -0800, Russ wrote: > > When sending emails to lists and for general use, yes text only is > > acceptable and actually how it should be. This is NOT so for many family and > > friends that are spread the world over. Being able to dress up your letters > > and send pictures inline (so you can explain the photo) is a big thing and > > cannot be ignored. Between family and friends this is acceptable. You may > > have no use for HTML but others do have a valid desire to. That is why I > > want to write mail in HTML form. > > > Yes, HTML mail can be ignored. It does not belong in emails. One reason > not already listed is that a malicious person can really cause problems > by coding html with javascript and.or activex objects (the latter only on MS > machines) which may spread virii or worms. > > Ken
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