[Mimedefang] Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Fw: Interesting Phishing Trick

[David F. Skoll]

Kenneth Porter wrote:

> Makes me wonder about installing outbound filters that run a validator
> and reject anything that fails. I often see flame wars on mailing lists
> about allowing HTML posts to the list, but I wonder how the arguments
> would change if one allowed only *validated* HTML.

Ooh!  You're onto something!  Allowing only strictly-validated HTML
would have the same effect as disallowing HTML altogether, but would
be far easier to justify to the PHBs as a
security/compliance/standards/pick_your_buzzword issue...

Regards,

David.