A reason not to use browsers for e-mail - e-mail wiretapping (fwd)

Roland Perry roland at linx.net
Fri, 9 Feb 2001 08:11:25 +0000


In article <00b701c09240$0cd323e0$1101a8c0@gwdom>, Barry James
<barry.james@wwm-uk.net> writes
>This seems to be a reason to avoid Outlook, Outlook Express, and Netscape 6
>email readers or turn their javascript abilities off rather than to avoid
>browser based email.
>
>Or have I missed something?

I haven't had time to read the original sources, but I think someone is
confusing HTML-coded emails [ugh, horrible things] with Webmail.
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