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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.

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Rob McEwen
https://www.invaluement.com

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