Thanks for the info. It is the newsreader that is accepting HTML. I wish I
could turn it off, but that doesn't appear possible. Perhaps I can persuade
Mindspring to filter HTML from their news servers.
---
Arvin Meyer
Terje Krogdahl wrote in message ...
>"Arvin Meyer" <a_at_m.com> writes:
>
>> Allright, we know this is spam. But how did this joker force my browser
to
>> open at the page below?
>
>The evil kid assumed that you were using a webbrowser with javascript
>support to read news, and posted his message as both text/plain and
>text/html. Your browser selected HTML, parsed the html code, and as
>it came across this line:
>
><BODY
onload="window.open('http://www.gamma-ent.com/pc/index.html','RemoteWindow')
">
>
>it popped up a new window with the website in it. Both Netscape and
>IE has a history of serious javascript related bugs, so you'd be better
>off without javascript. What this really shows is one of the many good
>reasons not to allow HTML in news postings.
>
>My ISPs newsserver will not accept html, neither in posting nor incoming
>feeds. I like that.
>
>--
>Terje Krogdahl
>
Received on Tue Oct 12 1999 - 08:02:25 CDT
