Duncan said > Lenny_Nero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > excerpted below, on Fri, 19 May 2006 23:21:00 +0100: > >> I think some people who use this (as I do) via gMane forget its a mail >> list and not usenet. > > Aye, but the same things that apply to HTML news apply to HTML mail, > even more so -- web bugs in HTML mail can link mail to IP address for > tracing, spammers love the confirmation they get that the mail was > viewed, and they can (if they want) then track the IP linked to the > email address. The malware issues are identical, mail or news. HTML is > fine on the web, but keep it out of my mail, and keep it out of my news!
I will say it again this is not a newsgroup, you (and I) might be reading it via a list to news engine, but its not usenet. I understand what you say about HTML, but there are many who read this only as a mail list. There are lots of other lists I read thru gMane where a very large percentage of the contributors no nothing about gMane. The Yahoo lists I read here (gMane) cant turn off the HTML with the Yahoo list posting tool and that goes for the owners of the lists as well. L. -- Want to help to keep the best free usenet servers running ? http://www.readfreenews.com _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
