[pmmail-list] PMMail 2000 Update

[Marty Rimpau]

I have only one problem with html, will it make pm mail as vonerable to
virus attacks as outlook express is?  I wouldn't want to have html
supported, and have some anonymous virus writer start going after the
pm mail code, which is no excuse for not having an updated anti-virus
program, but never the less, with all the pictures and such, this would
worry me.  On Wed, 29 May 2002 08:48:42 -0700, David M. Nelson wrote:

>On Wed, 29 May 2002 10:06:29 +0200, xavier caballe wrote:
>
>>I know most people on this list (but not outside this list) complain about
>>HTML, and I respect that... But I think is something like to say 'hey, you
>>can write all your documentation stuff with a regular text editor... Why
>>are you using a wordprocessor?  Of course, you have to take some security
>>considerations when adding this support, but you can easily forget about
>>most of the security and privacy issues just no accessing any external
>>data such are images and backgrounds.
>
>I'd like to respond as one of those who has expressed a dislike of HTML
>mail. I will set the security issue aside, as we seem to agree on that.
>
>Let me say that HTML can have a legitimate use in e-mail, just as a
>word processor is the proper tool for certain types of documents
>(though not for creating e-mail, as Microsoft would like us all to
>think). Having admitted the potential use for HTML doesn't excuse the
>95% of the junk I receive in e-mail in which HTML formatting adds
>absolutely nothing to the content. The words are the same, only now
>they are more "pretty." Someone decides that 14pt red script text
>centered on a blue-water bitmap background looks really *cool* and
>therefore I must want to read it that way.
>
>Well I've chosen my typefaces and color schemes to be legible on my
>monitor and I don't appreciate someone else trying to change that with
>no understanding of what they are doing.
>
>Add in the security issues, as well as doubling or tripling the message
>size, and HTML e-mail seems to be more trouble than it's worth.
>
>So in closing, I agree with you--keep the ability to write and view
>HTML e-mail in the software. Like it or not, that has become an
>expectation of modern e-mail software. Please understand that some of
>us are making an informed request to disable that feature. :-)
>
>(Darn that new-fangled aych-tee-emm-ell mail! In *my* day we didn't
>*have* colored text. It was just ten little green dots on the screen
>and you had to memorize the different combinations that made up each
>letter. And only one letter was visible at a time, so you had to
>memorize every one until the whole message was displayed, and if you
>forgot...well that was *TOO BAD* because you couldn't reverse once it
>had passed as the computer only had 2K of memory. And that's the way it
>was and WE LIKED IT!!)
>
>David M. Nelson
>
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