[plug] email message formats (inline attachments)

[Christian]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 08:06:52PM +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> Christian wrote:
> 
> > If you disable viewing inline attachments then you end up clicking on
> > the attachment to view it anyway.
> 
> Not in Netscape. You have to click on a message to delete it, unless you 
> can span it with a range. Clicking on a nastygram runs it, unless you 
> disable inline attachements (note that this is still two steps better 
> than Outlook, which runs many more kinds of nastygram, and which can be 
> induced to run a nastygram when you *receive* it...). I would rather 
> click on a nastygram, see dubious URLs and delete it without running it. 
> Truth be told, I would rather not see any nastygrams or other spam in 
> the first place, but in practice that involves either not having an 
> email address, or having a human filter it for you first.

Try actually reading what I wrote.  What you've said is completely
orthogonal to what I said.

What exactly do you mean by "runs it"?  Displays the image or the HTML
page?  Funny, I could have sworn these things happen when you're browsing
the web...  As I said before, nothing will happen when opening an email
attachment automatically in your browser that won't happen when browsing
the web.  If you feel safe doing the latter you should feel similarly
safe doing the former.  BTW, you don't have to open a message to delete
it in Netscape.  Try hiding/closing the window that displays the message
contents and selecting a new message.  It won't open the messsage.