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- From: arno@yaps.rhein.de (Arno Eigenwillig)
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- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
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- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 15:32:25 +0100
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- In article <4dj3k7$lmi@news.uni-c.dk>, Per Jacobsen writes:
-
- > > The mainstream also decided a long time ago that EMail Shall Not Update.
- > > It's a mantra, repeat it many times to yourself.
- >
- > Sounds nice, but what does it mean?
-
- It means that receiving and viewing an EMail (or any other document)
- shall not modify anything in the system. If it has to actually execute
- code contained in it (which always is a security risk), this code
- shall only do what is necessary to produce the output to be displayed,
- not anything magic.
-
- I guess the scenario to which the expression alludes is one in which a
- program author thought it was smart to distribute an update by EMail
- in a way that results in an automagic installation of it and then
- many troubles for people who did not have the program installed in
- exactly the way the author assumed.
-
- Michael, do you know the historical incident that gave birth to that
- saying (if there is one)?
-
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