From: [email protected]

* Jan Minar [Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:31:06 +0200]:

If You disagree, consider the following three scenarios (this mail is
getting looong, I'm sorry about that):

(1) Joe thinks brightwhite rulez, so he says:

color attachment brightwhite default

in his ~/.muttrc. He doesn't know ^H-highlighting is possible. He
was using hotmail up to yesterday, and is very happy about the
switch. He read the whole mutt manual, and he knows he must leave
allow_ansi unset. He's vulnerable.

(2) Jo doesn't care about colors that much. She's pretty comfortable
with the Debian defaults (well, not *all* the Debian defaults, but
the colors are OK). Once she saw a lame attempt to spoof a
PGP-signed email. Bah! She wasn't impressed. She knows the
delimiters must be *highlighted*. Maybe she's colorblind, maybe she
has better things to think of. She's vulnerable.

in my previous mail I took your whole reasoning with a "forgetting
about the timestamp" clause and proved the default setup safe for 99%
users.

now you come bitching about the remaining 1%, so I remove that clause
and say: EOB.

(3) Jan takes a .muttrc from his friend. He's bitching about the mutt
authors and maintainers all the time. One of the reasons is he had
to read the mutt manual multiple times, just to be able to (un)set
some fscking variable to what should've been its default. He can
recite the allow_ansi warning by heart. He wrote a whole tract to
bugtraq & debian BTS. He didn't grasp what was the problem,
although he tried the example sploit he devised on a fresh mutt
installation. He was vulnerable.

that pours some light.

have a nice day,

--
Adeodato Sim�
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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- Groucho Marx



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