Today's the day all those who refused to enter modernity get all smug that by rejecting communication with anyone outside their immediate bubble they are "safe".
The same people who complain about tech companies not doing enough to protect the "average user".

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Replying to @flameeyes
Some of us are not going around being "smug" about it. We're angry at how the awful design of HTML email clients puts ordinary users at risk, for no good reason.
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Replying to @RichFelker
Sure, there's plenty of reasons to complain about the design. Loading external content was never a good idea either. But the amount of crappy takes "nobody needs anything but text" just make me puke. People do use rich text email. Many need it.
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Replying to @flameeyes @RichFelker
"Was never a good idea either" is very kindly put. I'd rather say that it's insanely stupid and the only one that may benefit from that is a (immoral) sender - never the receiver of an email. HTML Markup may be ok, everything else is utter bullshit, nothing else.
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Yes. Honoring of any sort of script content or external resource references is *purely* malicious from the recipient''s standpoint.
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