Re: Possible Intrusion Attempt?

["Andersson (no email)" <devnull () pole-position org>]

Rob Shein wrote:
> I'm a little fuzzy about this part...how do you prevent people from
> accepting HTML mail, and considering how many mail clients out there send it
> by default, what do you do when all of a sudden a large percentage of people
> can't email you anymore?

I'm yet to see a MUA that sends html without also sending a text 
alternative (not that I've done a comprehensive study). All mail I've 
ever received with ONLY html has been spam, and one may actually use 
that as (part of) spam detection.

As a side note, Mozilla's "View/Message Body As/Plain Text" alternative 
is great. It does translate html to text if there is no text 
alternative. It doesn't connect to any external references (like 
1x1-pixel tracker pics). I've used this since I found out it was there, 
and I have had no problems at all. The "large percentage of people" is 
actually zero!

/R


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