From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 00:01:25 +0800
To: whgiii@invweb.net
Subject: Re: I was auto-outed by an IMG tag in HTML spam
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William H. Geiger III enscribed thusly:
> In <37a52bf54844994eb90c8e8af06b07b7@anon.efga.org>, on 02/18/98 
>    at 03:00 AM, Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org> said:

> >Use mail readers that don't automatically process HTML and
> >connect to image servers, accept cookies, or run javascripts.  You are
> >being watched by tricky defective, er, detective types. es.

> Several things here:

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> 2. AutoProcessing of Attachments:

> This is *allways* a BadThing(TM). Not only is it an obvious security risk
> it is a PITA for the user. I would be rally pissed if my mailer launched a
> V-Card app everytime someone thought it was a GoodThing(TM) to add these
> attachments to every message they sent out.

	Oh it gets better than that!  I know of one person who got hit with
a specially formated porno-spam message.  When he opened it, the html message
did an autorestart on his browser and <you guessed it> there he was browsing
the porno site!  What a convenient feature!  Especially with you boss and
co-workers in the vicinity!

	Needless to say, that person has is now a rabid anti-html in E-Mail
fanatic!

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