While I do still think it's Micro$oft's problem, I'm not confident
they'll actually solve it . . .

> Certainly, there needs to be a fix to this problem, but I think
> Microsoft already addressed that vulnerability by giving its
> Outlook and Entourage users the choice of not rendering any HTML
> in mail messages and also turning off the preview feature.

I'm not sure the option of turning it off actually addresses the
difficulty very effectively: my subscribers and my students,
generally, don't know what it is, much less that it's on by default,
and have a hard time figuring out how to turn it off when informed
that they should.

If it were a matter of waving a hand to get LISTSERV to do some small
part in protecting people, of course, I'd say do it: but I suspect
it's not that easy.

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