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Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent
From: Jim Shankland <nanog () shankland org>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 10:22:25 -0700
On 5/15/18 2:34 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
Which category best describes my wonderful, intelligent (but decidedly non-technical), 84-year-old mother-in-law, who has been using email for a couple of decades (thus certainly not a "newbie"), and is definitely not a spammer. Do you have any advice for how I break it to her that she's an ineducable moron? You know, since there are no exceptions and all.On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 01:47:50PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:TL;DR = Don't use HTML email [snip]That's enough right there. HTML markup in email is used exclusively by three kinds of people: (1) ignorant newbies who don't know any better (2) ineducable morons who refuse to learn (3) spammers. There are no exceptions.
Jim
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- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent, (continued)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Brandon Butterworth (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Rich Kulawiec (May 16)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Brian Kantor (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Bjørn Mork (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Daniel Corbe (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Mike Hammett (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Stephen Satchell (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Alan Buxey (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Hunter Fuller (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Rob McEwen (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Jim Shankland (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent nanog (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent bzs (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Mark Rousell (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Octavio Alvarez (May 16)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent John Levine (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Max Tulyev (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent John Levine (May 15)
- Re: Email security: PGP/GPG & S/MIME vulnerability drop imminent Max Tulyev (May 15)