[clue-tech] Linux vs. Windows security

[Jed S. Baer]

On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:04:13 -0700 (MST)
Bruce Ediger wrote:

> Somewhere, I read that before Outlook, if you'd mentioned
> making email content executable, people would have looked at you like
> you had a hole in your head.  And that's very true.

IIRC, the first instance of executable e-mail was when Netscape decided
to use HTML markup in Communicator, and enable, by default, JavaScript,
since it used the same HTML renderer as Navigator.

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