Re: Notepad popups

From: mto (nobody_at_dontsendmeanyspam.com)
Date: 08/09/03 

Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 17:09:11 -0400

"dkg_ctc" <dontknowguilt@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns93D289B48D505dkgctc@130.133.1.4...
> donut <none@none.com> wrote in
> news:Xns93D2163D4368donut@216.102.43.227:
>
> > "dkg_ctc" <dontknowguilt@hotmail.com> wrote in
> > news:Xns93D1720948B77dkgctc@130.133.1.4:
> >
> >> Because everyone knows how dangerous it is to open a file in
> >> Notepad...
> >
> > That's not the point at all.
>
> Actually, it is. You're using the fact that a webpage can launch a
> document in Notepad as a reason not to use Microsoft products.
>
> > The point is that Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and other M$
> > applications are being manipulated to do things they were never
> > intended to do.

Sounds to me that this is nothing more than the same IE only http command
that allows IE to open a pdf file or show you a graphic without an
accompanying web page. Just so happens "marketers" have discovered it and
are exploiting it.

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