Agreed 100% that it would be better if NetScape installed not to execute
any JavaScript in email and/or news by default. Maybe also to not
execute any JavaScript at all, by default. I still think we'll never see
that day, since NetScape consider JavaScript to be 'their baby'. But at
least you can turn it off and set the execution of JavaScript to the
settings you prefer.
JavaScript can be used to very much good. It can also be used as a (more
or less) dangerous tool by someone who has dark minds. Just like a car,
a rifle or a knife.
I stepped back from my PCs and had a thought:
When a 'newbie' does his/her first installation of RedHat Linux, s/he
will most often end up with a very insecure system. Most 'newbie'
installations will remain insecure for weeks and even months or more
before the 'newbie' first understands the need for, then learns how to,
secure his/her system. (Been there, [hopefully] done that myself.)
Most of the participants on this list (me included) still tend to
consider RedHat as being somewhere between a decent to a very good
distribution.
Just a thought.
Gustav
Uncle Meat wrote:
>
> On 11-Nov-2000 Gustav Schaffter opined:
> > Michael, Bret and anoyone else,
> >
> > I'm using the 'crappy' Netscape mail client. You know, the one that
> > some
> > people talk so very negatively about.
> >
> > Edit - Preferences - Advanced
> >
> > Let's see...
> >
> > Enable JavaScript => On (Could of course be turned off, if I wanted
> > to.
> > ;-)
> >
> > Enable JavaScript for mail and news => off
> >
> > OK
> >
> > Since this is (by some?) considered to be a 'crappy' email client, I
> > assume that all 'good' email clients with a GUI can do the same?
>
> I wouldn't call the mail client crappy. It just gets configured by users
> (and also by default) in a crappy manner.
>
> Now, I would consider an email client GOOD if one doesn't have to turn
> possible security problems off when they are turned on by default.
>
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