From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] How to process lightweight text markup languages?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:12:39 -0600
Date: 2015-01-19T14:12:39-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m9jofo$8e1$1@loke.gir.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m9jd2u$j08$1@dont-email.me
"G.B." <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid> wrote in message
news:m9jd2u$j08$1@dont-email.me...
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> Leaving some issues aside such as right brackets being far away,
> or missing altogether, or superfluous due to having been placed
> twice as in Natasha's example, or structured and misspelled, this
> setup falls a little short of what is to be achieved. In
> particular in a live system where there is no human involved,
> something must be produced:
No, this is a fallicy. The Internet (and world in general) would be better
off if documents that are sufficiently malformed were simply not displayed
at all. In that case, the document source would be fixed if anyone cares
enough.
As it is, the attempts at autocorrection leave huge holes in the safety of
the Internet (thus the world at large, as the Internet has become so
intergral). Malware filters cannot by their nature guess all of the ways
that some idiot tool will deal with malformed input, meaning that there are
always holes in the defenses to exploit.
And for what? So that people who can't be bothered to get their documents
formatted correctly still get some results (thus reenforcing their bad
behavior). Bah humbug!!
Randy.
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-18 18:04 [Slightly OT] How to process lightweight text markup languages? Natasha Kerensikova
2015-01-18 20:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-01-19 11:09 ` G.B.
2015-01-19 13:21 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-01-19 16:58 ` G.B.
2015-01-19 17:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-01-20 14:41 ` Robert A Duff
2015-01-19 20:12 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
2015-01-19 21:37 ` gautier_niouzes
2015-01-20 8:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-01-20 12:36 ` G.B.
2015-01-20 13:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-01-20 20:36 ` Shark8
2015-01-20 21:16 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-01-20 22:55 ` J-P. Rosen
2015-01-21 8:35 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-01-20 19:19 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2015-01-20 21:43 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-01-20 19:16 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2015-01-20 18:47 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2015-01-20 19:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-01-20 22:00 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-01-22 13:41 ` Natasha Kerensikova
2015-01-22 18:38 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2015-01-22 21:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2015-01-23 10:24 ` Stephen Leake
2015-01-21 14:54 ` Stephen Leake
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