From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 22525 invoked from network); 30 Jul 2023 23:59:21 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 30 Jul 2023 23:59:21 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B38A341107; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:59:15 +1000 (AEST) Received: from cesium.clock.org (cesium.clock.org [157.22.10.65]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2716D41101 for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:59:02 +1000 (AEST) Received: from cesium.clock.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cesium.clock.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B60CBC51; Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:59:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "Erik E. Fair" In-reply-to: References: To: George Michaelson Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:59:00 -0700 Message-ID: <8246.1690761540@cesium.clock.org> Message-ID-Hash: DMVCPPTE4FEAVMZJRQQBSWX4SUR3JUQA X-Message-ID-Hash: DMVCPPTE4FEAVMZJRQQBSWX4SUR3JUQA X-MailFrom: fair-tuhs@netbsd.org X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Cool talk on Unix and Sendmail history, by Eric Allman List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:34:56 +1000 From: George Michaelson [...] Execute on read is just awful. But, now we have HTML to track "they read it" through URL fetch. And then the utterly disastrous: JavaScript. It should be *eliminated* from the WWW as the gross security violation it is. "don't run software from strangers", Erik Fair