From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.49] helo=scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 177kVc-0005Ka-00 for ; Tue, 14 May 2002 18:11:04 -0400 Received: from user-10bj08l.cable.mindspring.com ([64.185.129.21]) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 177kVf-0001tY-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Tue, 14 May 2002 15:11:07 -0700 Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 18:11:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Murphy X-X-Sender: mweeby@rocky.home.dns.org To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Consensus opinion required - was 'more worms' In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Well I don't have a problem with it, since I don't use HTML mail anyway. Even when I am using Outlook or any other Windows mail client, I always make sure it is set to send plain text only. I was looking at this very list yesterday with Calipso, and one of those pesky worms got me, but fortunately Norton grabbed and quaranteened it. On Tue, 14 May 2002, 'Georgina' wrote: > Hi All > > Because of the use of html messages being used to transmit Windows > viruses, I wondered if folks would agree to having list messages > restricted to plain text only? > > The list owner will act upon whatever the consensus is. > > Gena > > Have your say: > Blindness Advocacy and Self Help Online www.bashonline.org > > Please don't send me MS Word documents, see > http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > Personal Contact Details: > E-mail: gena@gena-j.net WWW: http://www.gena-j.net ICQ: 144169465 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > Dan Murphy mailto:mweeby@earthlink.net Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around us in awareness. -- James Thurber