Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
There has never been an HTML virus, possibly a Java
or Javascript virus but those never had a place in HTML.
If DOM has no place in HTML inform the W3C, I could live
without JavaScript. Adddress confirmation with web bugs
needs no JavaScript, it only needs an <img src="..." />
and a MUA playing along.
THEY STOPPED USING ALL CAPS.
Time marches on.
The viruses spread through executable MIME attachments
That's an oversimplification. MUAs have no business to
"execute" attached files. OE doesn't qualify as MUA, it
is a virus installation kit. Proudly presented by the
inventors of the Internet and Sender ID.
Executables have no place in the email system.
It's nobody's business what I put in my mail, as long as
the receiver wants it.
If people must send them then lets work out a way to
transport them safely.
MIME does a decent job for this and other purposes. Much
better than UUE.
get a working anti-virus system
<http://purl.net/xyzzy/src/popstop.cmd> works for me, it
simply kills anything with more than 12 KB to my public
addresses + some b64 TV ("MZ") and UE ("PK") attachments.
however much you might like to make something obsolete you
will never manage it.
If it ain't broken don't fix it.
Remember early on in the SPF saga when people were bleating
about it not working for UUCP?
SPF has no problem with UUCP or avian carriers. It's about
SMTP. UUCP is behind MX gateways, Somebody created the MX
record, he can add a TXT, or is there a restriction in DNS ?
If there ever was a technology that has no place today it
would be UUCP
It's a convenient way to read and send Usenet newsgroups for
some users, if it ain't broken... BTW, less so for binary
groups. If you'd want warez and pics you'd better get NNTP.
there will always be some bearded wonder wearing flipflops
who insists that its all that he can use on his Altair and
that therefore the world should not deploy SPF.
Show me one article where somebody actually said this. The
bearded wonders generally know their stuff.
Bye, Frank (don't try ...!hanse.de!bfispc!leo ;-)