Plain text files in internet explorer

From: John Hennessy (johnh@charm.net)
Date: 08/31/02 

Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 07:54:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Hennessy <johnh@charm.net>
To: vuln-dev@securityfocus.com

Is it just me or is impossible to have plain text in internet explorer?
http://www.charm.net/~johnh/annoying.txt

If I make a text file and put it on my webserver, and put in a few lines
of text and then basicly anything in <>'s internet explorer will read it
as HTML.

Grrrrr is all I have to say about that.

John C. Hennessy
Information security analyst

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