Jargons of Info Tech industry

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Xah Lee wrote:
> (circa 1996), and email should be text only (anti-MIME, circa 1995),

I think e-mail should be text only.  I have both my email and news 
readers set to display in plain text only.  It prevents the marketeers 
and spammers from obtaining feedback that my email address is valid.  A 
surprising amount of information can be obtained from your computer by 
allowing HTML and all of it's baggage when executing on your computer. 
Phishing comes to my mind first and it works because people click the 
link without looking to see where the link really takes them.

> reason for SGML and HTML should understand the problem. Many of you
> familiar with drive of evolution of HTML from 1995 days to today's CSS
> & XML should also understand the issue. We wish to encode information,

I do not want spammers to encode information in their emails.

>  Xah
> 

Please go to jobs.org

Len

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