----Original Message---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] u.org] On Behalf Of Lenny_Nero Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 13:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Pn 0.97 won't start
> 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. The Yahoo groups I belong to allow posting in plain text whether from the Yahoo web site or from Outlook. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
