Mike Schilling wrote: > "l v" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Xah Lee wrote: >> >>>(circa 1996), and email should be text only (anti-MIME, circa 1995), >> >>I think e-mail should be text only. I have both my email and news readers >>set to display in plain text only. It prevents the marketeers and >>spammers from obtaining feedback that my email address is valid. A >>surprising amount of information can be obtained from your computer by >>allowing HTML and all of it's baggage when executing on your computer. >>Phishing comes to my mind first and it works because people click the link >>without looking to see where the link really takes them. > > > A formatting-only subset of HTML would be useful for both e-mail and Usenet > posts. > >
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