[suse-security] Re: [pdx] Re: [suse-security] Does Rich Text hold the same risks as html ?

[Crispin Cowan <crispin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Seth Arnold wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 04:01:30PM -0800, Crispin Cowan wrote:
>   
>>     * Rich Text: While I use it every day (I really like HTML in my
>>       e-mail in Thunderbird, it enables a lot of expression) I am not
>>       technically familiar with the difference between this and HTML.
>>     
> RTF and HTML are quite distinct -- they are more or less completely
> unrelated beyond both being text markup languages.
>   
RTF and HTML are unrelated, but several e-mail clients, including
Outlook and Google GMail, refer to HTML-encoded e-mail as "rich text".
This is stupid, but I didn't do it :)

Crispin
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