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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.
Courtesy. HTML messages are larger, so downloading is a factor for those who
monitor several lists or have slower internet connections.
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.
----- 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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