--On Tuesday, October 19, 1999 10:49 -0400
Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:
We have seen a number of attacks via e-mail that use text/html to carry
pointers to malicious code. We also had, many moons ago, a small war
regarding text/html versus application/html.
I recently heard about a rather large vendor of Tax software sending an
HTML message to customers which included an <IMG > tag pointing to
one-pixel transparent GIF with a user-id tag. This was used as an
involuntary read-receipt technique.
Incidently, I've decided not to use any mail client which renders non-local
content without asking first.
- Chris