Re: Any way of stopping outgoing Mail?

In article <47a7726d$0$28280$c3e8da3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The New guy wrote:

Does anybody think I would have had been able to stop it better or
faster if the message had been Plain Text? Why do people prefer to send
Plain Text?

Plain text would have been sent MUCH faster. So less chance to stop it.

Why ? Because plain text is the prefered method for emails by people who
know the internet. It is safe, virus-free, will be readable by any mail
client at the other end and has far smaller risk of being filtered out
by spam filters.

HTML email is evil. it is also dangerous because it may contain links to
external sites that will do malicious things.

For instance, a spammer can include a link to an image, but this link
contains a tag as data. The server at the other end will get that
request when your *read your email* and based on the tag, will be able
to confirm that you've read the email and not only flag your email
address as active/good, but also use your IP with geolocation servers to
assign a location code so that they can then sell your email address to
other spammers along with your general location.

If everyone stopped sending HTML emails, everyone would block it, and
then spammers would be left with very few means to escape spam filters
because their messages would have to b simple and without tricks.

A couple other important points to consider:

HTML messages are generally two to four times larger for the same
message than plain text equivalents. That means not only do they take
longer to transfer over the net, contributing to network congestion,
they also take up more disk space on your computer, on the recipient's
computer, and on every server they hit along the way!

With HTML messages, the people who receive the messages have little or
no control over the text font, size, and style. They must read th
message in whatever font, size, and style *you* set when you created the
message. Plain Text messages, on the other hand, display in whatever
font, size, and style the recipient wishes.

HTML email is wasteful, dangerous, and rude, IMO. It's just plain evil.

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JR
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