FYI for Yahoo users

bscott at ntisys.com bscott at ntisys.com
Tue Nov 12 13:42:29 EST 2002


On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, at 12:12pm, gnhlug at sophic.org wrote:
> One countermeasure you can exploit is your e-mail client's ability to not
> automatically display HTML mail.

  Or to do minimal processing of HTML mail.  Pine's HTML interpreter is
pretty simple, and it doesn't retrieve images, store cookies, execute
JavaScript, or do any of that other crap.  Basically, it turns completely
unreadable HTML garabage into barely readable text garbage.

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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