Would you give up HTML email to put an end to phishing?

[kranky]

With text-only email, it's a lot harder to fool someone into clicking over to a site that isn't the genuine article. You can see the URL as plain as day.

Would it be worth giving up HTML email to stop phishing? Just read an article over the weekend that said phishing attempts have tripled in the last six months and about 2% of the phishing emails are successful.

Yes, phishing shouldn't fool people, but the fact is that it does, and millions of dollars are being stolen by the crooks.

For me, I'd give up HTML email in a flash (no pun intended) and never miss it.

 

[Jzero]

I never wanted HTML mail to begin with. I disable it wherever possible.

 

[cruthick7]

Never been a fan of HTML email.

 

[FoBoT]

i use plain text email whenever possible

 

[ndee]

HTML Mails suck.

 

[xospec1alk]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
i use plain text email whenever possible

same here. what really is the point of html mail?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Already have.

- M4H

 

[Eli]

I still use a plain text email client, Eudora 3.0.5.

 

[aircooled]

yes

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Jzero
I never wanted HTML mail to begin with. I disable it wherever possible.

 

[archcommus]

I don't see what's so bad about HTML email. Just makes them look nicer than a big block of text. Not like I'm going to click on any foreign links anyway.

 

[Reel]

I preferred Pine as my mail client. Now that I have to use Outlook or webmail for school, I really hate these HTML mails.

 

[PricklyPete]

I'm not a fan of HTML email either. Not because I'm a "purist", it just seemed like something that didn't add anything to what I was trying to get done with email.

 

[FrustratedUser]

I never use HTML e-mail anyway. ASCII totally rocks.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Eli
I still use a plain text email client, Eudora 3.0.5.

Good times. Version 3 was from when? '95 - '96?

 

[Kadarin]

I don't like html email either.

 

[JDub02]

I like plain text as well. I change the font from Courier to Arial, though.

 

[Mayfriday0529]

Originally posted by: Reel
I preferred Pine as my mail client. Now that I have to use Outlook or webmail for school, I really hate these HTML mails.

Pine... jeez that old, the university i went to used that back in 98 and then switch to groupwise.

I like HTML email i hate dull and boring emails.

 

[StageLeft]

no

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: archcommus
I don't see what's so bad about HTML email. Just makes them look nicer than a big block of text. Not like I'm going to click on any foreign links anyway.

it's the img tags really. and sometimes javascript. you have to understand that image requests are still plain ol' http requests and that, once your computer displays that image, some spammer knows you just clicked his email and that you're using a valid email address.

 

[blackdogdeek]

Originally posted by: aircooled
yes

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

For my grandparents? Yes

For me? Don't really care. I'm not that stupid 😛

 

[rh71]

I got a phishing email that used some kind of redirect exploit off ebay. It was an actual ebay.com domain (even on mouseover, the status bar showed it)... but if you pasted the entire email address it went to... hidden in the middle of a LONG url param was redir=(IP addy) that it actually went to. No doubt a lot of people would be fooled by it if they half-a$$ed it. Hell it could've been real for all I figured but an IP address is real phishy. 😉

And to answer your question, I hate HTML to begin with, so yes.

 

[kt]

I still read my emails with Pine.

 

[edro]

I have HTML disabled in Thunderbird.