[Info-vax] OT: Rob Short: Operating System Evolution

[Paul Sture]

In article <00bb7cdf$0$26803$c3e8da3 at news.astraweb.com>,
 JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:

> In terms of VMS Mail, it just isn't worth the trouble. However, using a
> GUI mail reader does require you go through the trouble of finding the
> config parameters to disable displaying of any HTML or other evil
> formats (including javascript).
> 
> What I would like to see in GUI email clients is text-only by default,
> and you have a button to render the message in its full format when
> needed (for instancem, when you get an email from someone you know).

I had an interesting one the other day on my Mac.

I have signed up for several newsletters which send me the week's 
special in my local supermarkets (believe me, with the price of meat 
here...).

Although I have remote images disabled in Apple Mail, one of those 
supermarkets does manage to send me a graphical display by means of 
multiple attachments.

I haven't yet worked out what happened, but shortly after viewing one of 
those emails, my firewall chalked up a load of attempts by that very 
same supermarket to access port 80 on my laptop. Coincidence, I think 
not.

-- 
Paul Sture