[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Looking for old software

Sat Jan 22 18:16:55 EST 2005

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 22 January 2005 13:50, Glen VanDenBiggelaar wrote:
> 
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> Gaarrck, please don't use html on this list Glen.  Few, if any of us, 
> set our emailers to display html because its quite a huge security 
> hole when enabled.

A large number of Glen's posts on the gmane forum are showing up with 
only a signature and no body at all.

I also have mozilla set to only show the plain text portion of a 
message, so when this happens, I use the view source, and I am still 
showing any message body.

If there is only HTML content, it is being stripped before it shows up 
on the gmane.comp.hardware.tandy.coco newsgroup.

And while I am seeing new HTML based exploits discovered every week, for 
mail/news clients most of them are foiled by preventing the mail/news 
client from executing scripts (now the default), preventing the 
automatic opening of external pictures, and preventing the automatic 
opening of any attachments.

-John
wb8tyw(at)qsl.net
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