Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 17:57:13 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gordon > Burditt) wrote or quoted : > >> >>HTML enables a heck of a lot of problems: "web bugs" in email, >>links to fake sites that appear as real ones in what shows up >>on the screen, Javascript viruses, denial-of-service attacks >>(pages that open two windows when you close one), etc. > > Just how long do you want to stall evolution? Do you imagine people > 200 years from now will be still be using pure ASCII text unable to > find a solution to JavaScript viruses (turn off JS), pop-up( disable > popups) etc.?
I've already the impression that a lot of people are moving from email to IM. I prefer email, but some of my customers prefer IM. Also, with Unicode support in a plain text environment it's also possible to make links to fake sites. It's even possible with pure ASCII I mean: HTTP://WWW.G00GLE.COM/ or even: http://www.goog1e.com/. -- John Small Perl scripts: http://johnbokma.com/perl/ Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/ I ploink googlegroups.com :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
