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Ton Maas
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Wallace" <gcwallace@xxxxxxxx>
To: "MetaStock listserver" <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: maandag 3 april 2000 17:26
Subject: Re: Brown and Co. (Longish explanation)
In addition to etiquette and consideration for those who do not or cannot set
their e-mail applications to read HTML, there are a couple additional reasons
to encourage the use of plain text for e-mail lists.
//////Upgrade is something anyone can do, of free will and for FREE, so point not taken!
Courtesy. HTML messages are larger, so downloading is a factor for those who
monitor several lists or have slower internet connections.
//////Messages are what it says, 1-2-3 liners. Mails are multiple liners thus can get larger.
If monitoring a list, reduce that to monitoring what is of your intrest, and skip other
mails/lists.
More importantly, HTML e-mail is a security risk. There are increasing
occurrences of HTML containing code or executable scripts that, at best, phone
home to confirm the address is good and report on readers' habits or, at
worst, embed trojan horses that can do serious damage just by viewing them.
//////You yourselves are the risk-factor. For that I have forwarded enough prevention-mails.
HTML cannot infect your mailer if you leave attachments un-open-ed. Wether they
be virusses, trohjans or whatever attached "bugs"(note that they cannot be embedded,
they can only be referenced in the code AND be attached as a file).
But : Whatever you do, do not Share (disks).
Save an attachment to temp-disk first, than view file with a proper Viewer, and
Delete permenantly if uncertain.(Youcan use the UNDELETE command to truely check
if a file has been fully deleted from the disk(=also a large file).
All basic prevention-stuff.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Baude" <BAUDECB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 02, 2000 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: Brown and Co. (Longish explanation)
> On Sun, 02 Apr 2000 17:03:55 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >In the beginning......the Internet carried only "plain text" -- letters,
> >number, punctuation, and spaces, but no fancy formatting, ............
>
> Wow Chuck, that was a great post..... I think your final statement:
>
> > The various e-mail programs have settings for limiting themselves
> > to "plain text," though it is more often expressed as a choice not
> > to use "styled" or HTML output.
>
> Sums it up. It's akin to seeing the newbies typing in all uppers.
> FWIW, some think that it is "shouting" when in fact it is very
> difficult to read if there are more than 10 lines of text.
>
> -÷ Chris ß ÷-
>
> I must admit I like the thought of seeing the chart displayed with the
> text. However, I like to sometime save the chart along with text in my
> PIM (Info-Select from www.miclog.com).
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