>>> Please turn off the HTML posts.
>> His post is a multipart message containing an additional plaintext
>> version. If you saw the HTML version, your client is broken or
>> misconfigured.
> My client presented both versions as plain text, as arguably it
> should (because some broken clients don't send an appropriate plain
> text version if they're sending an HTML message).
The rare cases with no plaintext part can be handled by switching to the
source view. That cases are easily detected by the absence of any body
text in the plaintext view.
> But HTML when presented as such in mail or news is simply a
> vulnerability vector waiting to be exploited, and plenty of senders
> do just that with spyware (web bugs being the simplest) and malware.
Of course it is. Everything, that gets interpreted in any way, is
(including the whole email).
> So no responsible person will allow HTML mail to be processed and
> displayed as such on their machines, which in turn means no
> responsible person should choose to send it.
So you chosed to not process HTML in emails because of the security
implications. That is fine (even if it leaves me wondering how the web
looks like on your machine).
I dislike HTML in emails too (mostly because of common convoluted table
designs and ugly font/color choices). But others seem to like it and so
they use it. They either do not care or come to other conclusions
regarding the buggyness of current HTML/image parsers and the uglyness
of most HTML mails out there...
Fortunately one can chose whether to display that HTML or not - even if
some obviously have chosen to not use that freedom.
HTML mail is all about choice too.
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