Re: What's up with Slashdot and Outlook

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Yet another reason why HTML e-mail is evil and plain text
rules. :-)

- ferg


-- "John LaCour" <johnlacour () gmail com> wrote:

I see the same thing.   Outlook 2003 11.8010.8107 SP2

I think Outlook is just slow rendering the HTML.  It may be going
out and grabbing the the page as well.   Haven't bothered looking
at a sniffer...



On 11/8/06, Krpata, Tyler <tkrpata () bjs com> wrote:
> Can't replicate the problem here, Outlook 2003 11.8026.8036 SP2
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard M. Smith [mailto:rms () computerbytesman com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 12:21 PM
> To: 'FunSec [List]'
> Subject: [funsec] What's up with Slashdot and Outlook
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone on the list have a theory of why copying text from a
> Slashdot
> Web page and pasting it into an new HTML email message in Outlook 2003
> is
> very slow?  I just timed a simple paste operation from Slashdot and it
> took
> 35 seconds for Outlook to do the operation.  Something doesn't seem
> right.
>
> Here is the test I'm running:
>
>   1.  Start Outlook and open up a new HTML email
>       message.
>
>   2.  Start IE and go to slashdot.org
>
>   3.  Select the word "Posted" in the first Slashdot message
>       and copy it to the clipboard
>
>   4.  Paste the word into the HTML email message
>
>   5.  Wait for 35 seconds as Outlook "thinks".
>
> Thanks,
> Richard M. Smith
> http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com
>
> P.S.  I don't see the problem on any other Web site.



--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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