It happened [Was: Re: Email sanitizing - requesting advice ]

[Dan Brosemer <odin@cleannorth.org>]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 04:32:14PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote:
> More importantly, I can't defang the most serious problem with web-mail:
> .html files... why?  Because your web-mail would cease to work if I tried.
> 
> See Dave's link in
> http://lists.cleannorth.org/archive/techies/2001-05/msg00023.html for why
> html files are a problem in web mail.

And 13 days later... the register reported:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/19388.html

Combine the two issues, and you get a message that sends itself to everyone
in your address book when you try to delete it!  _Just_ like I was talking
about.

Are we having fun yet?

-Dan

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