Boost logo

Boost :

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-15 20:47:06


At 03:09 AM 9/14/2002, Terje Slettebø wrote:

>I think OP's point was to alert us to the fact that although this one was
>benign (it wouldn't do anything unless you pressed the button), it's easy

>to imagine JavaScripts that are _not_ benign, and that does things
without
>consent.

The latest beta of Mailman apparently has a option to convert all messages
to plaintext, including stripping out ECMA/JavaScript.

We will convert that when possible, but the exact timing depends on our
hosts at the University of Indiana, who have to be concerned about system
stability.

--Beman


Boost list run by bdawes at acm.org, gregod at cs.rpi.edu, cpdaniel at pacbell.net, john at johnmaddock.co.uk