Getting medireview on our asses

[avram]

According to the latest NTK, Yahoo has been doing automatic text substitution in the email sent to its users, in a ham-fisted attempt to defeat scripting attacks; resulting in a list of seven words you can’t say in email. The substitution doesn’t respect word bounderies, so even if you use a word, like “medieval”, containing a forbidden fragment (the JavaScript command “eval” in this case) Yahoo will transmogrify it into “medireview”. Google apparently now shows over a thousand instances of “medireview” being used as a synonym for “medieval”.

Comments

Re: another good reason...

[webbob.livejournal.com]

Frankly, since I am the IT department, or a big chunk of it, no.

Re: another good reason...

[avram]

Oh. Then no, there are no good reasons for HTML email.

(Chunks of HTML in email might have a purpose, like if you're talking about HTML in the email message, and want to provide examples, but you want those sorts of things to display as uninterpreted source code with the tags visible, not to get parsed and displayed as if in a browser.)