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On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 12:56:29AM +0200, Jesper Harder wrote:

> Why should we a priori consider, say, xdvi less safe than some of the
> libraries (libpng, libtiff, zlib etc.) that Emacs is built against?

xdvi can invoke Netscape or Mozilla, the libraries don't do _that_. 8-)

But I see your point.  Maybe image support should be disabled, too?
At least the pictures should not be shown by default (certainly a good
idea anyway because of some junk mail).