Re: [Pan-users] Multiple Server support for PAN: Need a spec

[Duncan]

On Monday 21 October 2002 06:57, Gorwood, Steve wrote:
[snipped]

Just a heads up... 

There's a REASON PAN doesn't parse HTML!   It doesn't belong in news messages, 
because it is a security risk, and a good portion of HTML formatted messages 
are spam anyway.

It doesn't belong in mail, either, for the same reasons.  My highest priority 
filter sends all HTML formatted messages to the trash, and the only reason I 
saw this one I am replying to, is because I happened to check the trash 
before I emptied it.  I figure if you need HTML formatting to artificially 
emphasize your message, it must be because the content wasn't worth reading 
on its own, anyway.  Have you ever asked yourself why so many spammers use 
it?  The place for HTML is on the web, not in mail or news.

Please, folks, keep your HTML off the list, or a portion of the audience won't 
see your messages.

-- 
Duncan
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --
Benjamin Franklin