Images in spam and plain-text/HTML debate (was Re: [Mimedefang] Latest SPAM scam.)

[David F. Skoll]

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Stefan Schoeman wrote:

> I've been thinking about this for some time as well.
> Perhaps one can include the gif image as a virus signature in something
> like ClamAV, then it will be identified as a virus and bounced. I am
> guessing that the gif is the same over all messages ?

Yet another data point that (I think) backs up my assertion that we'll
move inexorably to plain-text mail with no multimedia attachments or
"rich text". :-)

Regards,

David.