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Re: value of standards

2000-05-04 20:30:03
On Thu, 04 May 2000 15:25:37 EDT, Keith Moore said:
Perhaps unfortunately, RFC 2046 doesn't come right out and say
"DON'T EXECUTE CONTENT IN EMAIL MESSAGES".

Then again, it doesn't say DON'T CUT YOUR CUSTOMER'S ARM OFF either.

not that it would matter if it did...

There's simple inability to correctly implement the protocol,
and there's unwillingness to correctly implement the protocol.

I'm still not sure which is more easily curable with a baseball bat... ;)

                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech



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