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On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:02:11 -0700, "Don Schmidt" <Don
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"Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Your choice, of course, but my advice is to avoid html mail entirely.
I have html turned off here in my E-mail client as well as in my
newsreader, and read all messages in plain text. That's because html
*can* carry malicious code, and not reading html messages is a safer
way to read mail or news.

It's very likely true that this message wasn't malicious, and probably
true that very few messages are malicious. Nevertheless, you never
know, and I think it's prudent to avoid html. As far as I'm concerned,
I'm interested in the content of the message, not its form, anyway.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Thanks for the good advice Ken but it would present me with another problem.
I send out lodge meetings notices monthly; about a dozen on USPS postcards
and another 60 or so via email. The email version is a gif of the USPS
postcard which most times carries a graphic, a map to the meeting location
which for the Council changes often.


Three points:

1. You can send html mail and still read all incoming mail as plain
text (although it doesn't seem fair to set different standards for
your correspondents and yourself.

2. You could sent the map as an attachment, not embedded within the
message as html. (But attachments have their own security risk).

3. Whatever you do, you run the risk of having correspondents like me,
who will not accept the map from you via E-mail.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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