[ale] OT: Running Outlook is easy for the user but could cost you

[Newcombe at mordor.clayton.edu (Dan Newcombe)]

On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> The article below only briefly mentions MSFT products as being the possible
> breach.  In this case millions have been spent in development and much
> of that can be lost due to the "ease of use" of outlook. And a dose
> of shite programming.

It's not ease-of-use...it's "hey...people really need to be able to send
e-mail with animated gif's on a paisley background."	I'd take a good
guess that it was all the HTML intergration in Outlook causing the
problem.  If outlook was just pure text, it would be easy to use and safe.