<div dir="auto">Nathaniel (Mr Mime) Borenstein came up with something (atomicmail?) that was intended to be more functional than raw text but safer than free execution of unknown code. I disremember the details. I don’t think it ever got traction.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 7:59 PM Erik E. Fair <<a href="mailto:fair-tuhs@netbsd.org">fair-tuhs@netbsd.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><br>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:34:56 +1000<br>
From: George Michaelson <<a href="mailto:ggm@algebras.org" target="_blank">ggm@algebras.org</a>><br>
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Execute on read is just awful. But, now we have HTML to track "they<br>
read it" through URL fetch.<br>
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And then the utterly disastrous: JavaScript. It should be *eliminated*<br>
from the WWW as the gross security violation it is.<br>
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"don't run software from strangers",<br>
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Erik Fair<br>
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