Re: malignant mail (II)

Hara Ra (harara@shamanics.com)
Mon, 04 May 1998 06:29:09 -0700

Well, I've about had it up to (here) with the truly stupid default
settings that the various email handlers, especially good ole
Microsoft gives to the truly clueless user. Perhaps a FAQ could
be created stating explicitly what to do to make sundry email
clients treat their email as

JUST PLAIN OLD ASCII THANK YOU

I know I would forward said FAQ to about 30 users who always send
me email in strange colors, typefonts, and sometimes just plain
illegible.

Grumble. too late the wee hours. Oh well....

--- Hara Ra

At 07:20 PM 3/31/98 +0200, you wrote:
>>Beware of too powerful mail clients. Orelse, suffer.
>
>
>Worst about it, I haven't seen a fix come up yet. Mickeysoft doesn't even
>mention the problem (their latest "security" message about IE is from
>January). Although it's very similar to the other buffer overrun problems
>recently -- you could probably even exploit it to execute malignant code on
>the reader's machine. "Good Times" for Eudora users ;-).
>
>Erik Moeller
>
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