[Mimedefang] Rewarding plaintext
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Thu Oct 16 13:24:40 EDT 2003
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Cormack, Ken wrote:
> Perhaps the solution would be for more and more admins to set their
> originating servers to strip HTML from all OUTBOUND mail.
That's an excellent idea.
I believe that within 3-5 years, many organizations will ban HTML mail
(at least, mail that comes from or goes to external addresses.)
Many organizations already have a blanket prohibition against .exe,
.com, etc. because of virus risks.
As spam becomes a much larger problem than viruses, organizations will
(re-)discover that HTML provides hundreds of sneaky and ingenious
mechanisms to fool content-scanners. Eventually, they'll institute a
blanket ban on HTML mail.
Once a large enough percentage of e-mail addresses stop accepting HTML
mail (probably around 10-15%), you'll see its use drop dramatically as
users are forced to deal with the fact that HTML mail delivery is unreliable.
I can dream, anyway. :-)
--
David.
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