Re: US Military bans HTML in emails

Bill Gunshannon wrote:

In article <459807A6.EF027BAC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David J Dachtera <djesys.no@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Bill Gunshannon wrote:

In article <459783d4$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter 'EPLAN' LANGSTOEGER) writes:
In article <f0252$45976d1c$cef8887a$29035@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
http://www.fcw.com/article97178-12-22-06-Web
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Due to an increased network threat condition, the Defense Department is
blocking all HTML-based e-mail messages and has banned the use of Outlook
Web Access e-mail applications, according to a spokesman for the Joint Task
Force for Global Network Operations.
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Better late than never. I banned them (and MIME mails) some years ago
(though I run my mail on VMS and don't fear virii/worms)...

"Text mails only here. No HTML or binaries needed for proper communications..."

What do you do when someone needs to send a Word document to someone else
at a remote location (inbound or outbound)? The Business Woirld still
runs on MS Office, like it or not.

Word documents can also carry malware. Likely to be banned also, sometime soon.

Highly unlikely. Attempts by others to supplant MS Word have, up to this
point, proved unsuccessful.

In theory, and admittedly arguably, it already has been supplanted by mandate of
multiple federal laws in some privacy-sensitive industries.

Text documents will suffice in the vast majority of cases.

Not in the real world. Good enough doesn't cut it when someone higher
than you says, "The corporate standard is MS Word."

....until the(ir next) multi-billion-dollar outage due to malware. Then, the
higher-ups face turn-over while the workers bees burn the midnight oil to clean
up the mess.


The world did not begin with M$ - it will not stop without it, either.

Nice thought, but not grounded in reality.

Damn, Bill, do you hear yourself?

Think for a moment: What was your desktop "computing" environment prior to, oh,
1985? ...or even Windows V3.x? (Hint #1: What famous software was touted to be
as easy as __, __, __? (Fill in the blank yourself.) Hint #2: It wasn't M$, but
did run on IBM/M$-DOS.)

....prior to 1975?

Starting to regain your perspective now?

Even given the alternatives
I have seen no move to eliminate MS Word from places where it counts.
Like businesses and schools (who are busy creating yet another generation
that will know only one way to do business.)

....until corporate America demands downtime reductions through the non-use of
M$, or modified methods of using it. The day is coming, perhaps sooner than
anyone wants to admit.

DA uses MS products extensively. There has, so far, been no expressed
desire to even consider an alternative like OpenOffice.

Desires seldom withstand legislation and/or executive orders.

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