HTML Email - was [oclug] Stormix troubles...

[Warren A. Layton]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 01:25:16AM -0500, Shad Young wrote:

> > > The security reasons I speak of aren't the obvious I-Love-You type
> > > mailbombs. Disabling java script in emails is usually enough to prevent
> > > those. Rather it is the img or meta-refresh bugs that let the spammer know
> > > that they have a valid email address. And there are other security similar
> > > issues.
> 
> I'm killing myself laughing here...you just make that up? ROFL

He's probably referring to http://lwn.net/2001/0208/security.php3 or the
actual advisory from the Privacy Foundation at
http://www.privacyfoundation.org/advisories/advemailwiretap.html

Although I know a lot of people are not affected by this, there are
still a lot of people using Netscape 6/Mozilla as their mail client
under Linux.

Warren

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 Pour le reste, il y a un frais administratif."

Warren A. Layton
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