Phillip
Wed Aug 11 10:31:34 CDT 2004
Yea, but it just goes to show that even with that one you have to "hack the
registry". It isn't the technical people who have the real problem with the
worms, viruses, and spyware by HTML Email, it is the non-technical Home
Users who aren't going to be hacking their registries, they are the ones
causing these things to spread all over the Net like wild-fire. Disabling
HTML mail should be a plain and simple, in plain site, right under their
nose setting so even the simplest user can turn it off.
They seemed to have figured that out with SP1 of OE6 but they haven't
figured it out with Outlook yet.
--
Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com
"Bob Henson" <news@galenx.org.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Phillip Windell" <@.> wrote in message
> news:uOkdbRxfEHA.592@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > "Frank le Spikkin" <zaq@invalid.jp> wrote in message
> > news:Xns9541905A40FFFlSxxx@207.46.248.16...
> > > <sigh>
> > >
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;291387
> >
> > Don't sigh Frank. I can't know everything about every variation of every
> > feature's details in every product that MS ever comes out with coupled
> with
> > the fact that it changes from SP to SP. According to that article the
> > feature of reading only in "plain text" didn't exist until after SP1 of
> > version 6. That only helps with OE, but Outlook is still a problem,..or
> did
> > they toss something in some new version with some new SP to cover that?
> I've
> > seen the articles about writing the VBA script in Outlook to somehow
strip
> > out or don't display the HTML, but I have used their "script" and it is
no
> > where dependable,...and it is no where near what the average Home User
is
> > ever going to do, and they are the ones who are the biggest problem and
> need
> > it the most.
> >
> > As far as the file types the OE security feature blocks, all they had to
> do
> > is place an "Edit" button or something in the GUI of OE's Security
Options
> > that takes you directly to the File Types instead of someone having the
> > magically know that to adjust something in OE you have to use IE's
"Unsafe
> > File List" which isn't in IE but is clear over in the OS's File Type
where
> > the File Extension Associations are kept and tell it to "Confirm open
> after
> > download" or not,...how intuitive. And how does "Confirm after
Download"
> in
> > IE somehow intuitively translate into "Let the OE user access
> > Attachment"?....it doesn't to me and would never have known that apart
> from
> > reading in the KB article. How is the average "Joe Home User" going to
> > somehow automatically know to do this?...they won't,..yet they are the
> ones
> > with the most problem and need it more than I do.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
> > www.wandtv.com
> >
> >
>
> This one works to read mail in plain text only in Outlook 2002 using XP
Home
> on my two machines.
>
> Using Regedit :-
>
> Navigate to :-
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\office\10.0\outlook\options\mail
> Edit Menu, Click NEW, then DWORD Value
> Type ReadAsPlain
> Doubleclick the new value, enter 1 in the Data box, then OK.
>
> I don't know if it works for all Office versions, I've only tried this
> combination.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Bob
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