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    [Notator/Creator SL mailing list]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 10:20:01AM +0200, Hallvard Tangeraas wrote:
> Yes, this was also detected by the listserver. Seems there was some
> programming code among the HTML tags which the message was composed of.
> Once again, PLEASE turn OFF the HTML mode when posting messages to this list.
> You Baz have also sent this message using HTML actually.

This often happens automatically because the default behaviour of crappy
Windows software is to switch to HTML mode, without asking, if you put
a URL or suchlike into an email, or if you reply to an email which had HTML
in it (as was the case with Baz), even if your own default setting is to
always use plaintext.

My opinion would be that you cannot expect all users to know this, and it
is up to the people who run mailing lists to take responsibility not just
for education, but trying to avoid this situation. It ought to be trivial
for the mailing list software to strip out any and all attachments which are
not of type text/plain. Since we don't want either HTML or binaries going
to this list, that will cause no harm and will prevent lame-o scriptworms
from spreading in this way.

Asking people nicely is not enough, if you want a plain-text list then
you really have to enforce it with the software.

Jamm!n
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