medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 21:59:35 -0400
From: "Juris G. Lidaka" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Accented letters in emails
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The plot works *sometimes* but not often enough to use
frequently. E-mail messages are often transformed to an old standard
known as EBCDIC (if I recall it rightly), which is largely restricted to
lower-ASCII characters. Some will get fancy bold face, underlining, or
accented letters, and some will not. For the sake of those who will not,
it is better not to assume lower-ASCII will be seen and thus it is wiser
to write so.
This is a sad state, but a real one. It is best to avoid
higher-ASCII, HTML-mail, and other recent developments until standards,
security, and privacy are all significantly improved.
Even Micro$oft urges people to turn off e-mail preview windows,
e-mail javascript, and I hope HTML-mail because they are serious security
risks, though it does not change the defaults for installation. On this
list we have already seen the dangers of HTML-mail carrying hostile
javascript.
Juris
Juris G. Lidaka
WVSC Box 57
PO Box 1000
Institute, WV 25112-1000
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