Dear Carroll, Thank you for your comments.
Please have no fear! The technology is already there and the potential for development phenomenal. Anti-virus scanners should recognise wav, ogg, or mp3 files. It only requires placing in the background of the e-mail, hopefully without the need for hmtl. I think that you are going to be very pleased with this development in spite of your current sentiments. Best wishes, Malcolm Candlish. On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 02:41, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Saturday 15 November 2003 03:17 pm, candlish wrote: > > Sir or Madam, > > > > I would like to place a small sound file in an outgoing e-mail to > > activate on opening, as possible in 'Outlook Express'. I tend to use > > Evolution and Mozilla in the main, but could use any e-mail client. > > > > What I wanted was for the sound to travel with the e-mail and to be > > activated on opening. This may be seen as a virus however? > > > > This surely be made possible! > > > > Thank you in anticipation. > > > > Malcolm Candlish. > > Malcolm: > > No, no, no! Sober up, man! Take a cold shower! Forget it! > > Feel better now? Good. Let's begin by remembering that the Number One > transport mechanism for Windows viruses and worms is Outlook/Outlook Express > because they are diabolically designed to execute attached files. What's the > very first thing that Windows users are told to do to tighten security? > That's right, change the default settings to defeat the automatic execution > "feature". It's also why mail filter programs strip all such attachments from > incoming mail -- those things are potential bombs. Hell, most of us are > paranoid about just getting HTML; your musical alerts would really light the > place up. > > Possible under Linux? No. That's why you don't see postings here from folks > who "just" opened an e-mail, and now they find that they have become a major > distributor of spam and malware, their system is doing goofy things, and the > mouse pointer has developed a mind of its own. It isn't be accident, my > friend, it's by design. KMail (and others) can provide an audible notice that > email has arrived, but it is controlled by the receiver, not the sender. > > Let's think a little further. I, for one, do not wish to hear whatever hit of > the week accompanies your last missive, especially should you decide that the > complete Slim Whitman collection would be exactly what it takes to get me to > read your e-mail. Now, if I were still laboring away in a cubicle farm, and > was subjected to the musical announcement of the arrival of Malcolm's latest > e-mail from each of the surrounding cubes, be assured that I'd be at the > forefront of the mob coming after you. (First offense: tar, feathers and a > rail; subsequent offense: Nasty. Very nasty. Involves a rope and a tree. No > jury will convict us.) > > Add to the above the overhead of your demonic thought -- bigger files, longer > downloads, yada, yada... and you'll understand why the only acceptable medium > for e-mail -- particularly on mail lists -- is plain text. The frou-frou is > neither necessary nor acceptable. > > OTOH, you may have come up with a new concept here -- singing spam. Please do > not include my name on any patent application that you may file. > > -- cmg > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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