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.
To get somewhat closer to topic, I would only follow external IMG links if
the source of the email was trusted and authenticated. SPF might be adequate
but I would prefer crypto.
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.
Its nobody's business whay YOU put in your email but you are not the average
user. If John Levine can make a squillion dollars out of the Internet for
Dummies then that implies that there is a demand for that. Most people would
prefer an Internet for dummies.