From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9b30240b5a381bbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-31 06:59:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.telebyte.nl!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: mailers, quoting text etc. (was Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?) References: <5ee5b646.0208241357.39e0956a@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Inktomi-Trace: pc2-bbrg1-4-cust58.ren.cable.ntl.com 1030802364 30650 80.4.70.58 (31 Aug 2002 13:59:24 GMT) Message-ID: <1Z3c9.4327$vQ4.13701@newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net> Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:58:33 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.3.128.5 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep3-gui.server.ntli.net 1030802365 80.3.128.5 (Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:59:25 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 14:59:25 BST Organization: ntl News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28626 Date: 2002-08-31T14:58:33+01:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > Really? > > Typical microsoft mailers make the unseen addition of completely useless > HTML by default that is > > a) redundant and serves no purpose > b) wastes bandwidth and clutters up databases > c) presents a security risk (HTML attachments are not benign!) > > But I guess none of these (especially c) has ever been of any concern to MS :-) That is why eveyrone with sense should use a decent mailer like Mozilla Mail, Eudora or whatever and avoid MS mailers like Outlook and Outlook Express, or use some script/html blocking software with OE or Outlook. Chris -- for personal replies change 'spamoff' to 'chris'