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Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent
From: Rob McEwen <rob () invaluement com>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 09:59:27 -0400
On 5/15/2018 5:34 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
That's enough right there. HTML markup in email is used exclusively by three kinds of people: (1) ignorant newbies who don't know any better (2) ineducable morons who refuse to learn (3) spammers. There are no exceptions.
For years, I was very disciplined about using plain-text only for my outbound messages... but then I got frustrated with seeing email I had posted (to lists like this) - come back with horribly bad line wrapping - that made for very choppy readability. (This may have been better or worse depending on which software or device I was reading it on?)
Then, when I switched to using my Thunderbird client's "plain and html" setting, that problem went away, and posts that I made didn't look like someone high on drugs typed them.
-- Rob McEwen https://www.invaluement.com
Current thread:
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent, (continued)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Rich Kulawiec (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Brandon Butterworth (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Rich Kulawiec (May 16)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Brian Kantor (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Bjørn Mork (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Daniel Corbe (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Rich Kulawiec (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Mike Hammett (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Stephen Satchell (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Alan Buxey (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Hunter Fuller (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Rob McEwen (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Jim Shankland (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent nanog (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent bzs (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Mark Rousell (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Octavio Alvarez (May 16)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent John Levine (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Max Tulyev (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent John Levine (May 15)