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From: mic@dataweb.BOUNCE_SPAM.nl (miK)
Subject: Re: Warning -- ASCII art and Netscape Messenger 5.0
Date: 1999/11/16
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Eldar Berg Marcussen wrote:

>miK wrote:
>
> > Ben Bucksch wrote:
> > 
> <snip>
>
> > For News: text = OK, for 
> > e-mail: all formats will do. Just because talking to a friend
> > isn't as drastic as YELLING TO THE WORLD,.. duologue.
> > 
> <snip>
> It is throught the defaults build into text based
> extention handling software that we see the dawn of such programs as
> melissa and bubbleboy.. 

Yes, you're right about security. My statement "for e-mail all formats
will do" was indeed a bit radical. :)

> To be honest I feer for those who will be using
> WINDOWS 2000.. It has a lot of wrongly set defaults..like file sharing
> with write access to anyone as default.. Stealth security and buildt in
> telnet server that could be enabled with javascript / vba script in ann
> email and then used freely just like the machines owner ran BO / Netbus..

You're diverging. HTML and Javascript/VB-script are interrelated but
different things.

> It's the inability to understand these aspects that allows hackers to pry
> on feeble windows users..

... or on any "feeble-minded" comp user at all. That's why it's so
important that default settings are OK (in agreement with Netiquette,
secure, etc.).

> Oh well.. I couild go on for hours like that.. Bottom line is.. Just
> becourse you think html can enhance the email reading.. Don't judge it as
> safely..

TMK HTML itself is harmless. Tho' it might be unreadable to some and it sure
is annoying to many others.

cheers :)
mic

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