On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 02:11:30PM +1000, Sonam Chauhan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > In the light of all the virus troubles (and save the running virus checkers some
>time)
> > wouldnt it be feasable if people are asked to only post "text based" mail to
>
> No, not for those reasons
MMMhhh, why not?
If nowbody could send HTML/SCRIPT based mail we would not have to spend
hours/days to
* update virus infromation files
* update virus software regulary
* make sure that even the least knowledgeable user understands
and spend less money on this and could spend money on research ...
on top off this if we had a different mail protocol for formatting
of email (to make it pretty) we had no troubles at all........
jobst
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