Re: Posting with script tags, or a plea not to

On Friday 12 April 2002 03:51, Barry C. Hawkins wrote: > List members, > I am sure this was probably mentioned before I joined the list, but > when members post to the list using the PHP tags around the script, a > number of web-based PHP mail apps attempt to process the script server-side > and those of us blessed with such systems see either nothing or > unintelligible garble with some of the funniest hyperlink behaviors I have > seen in a while. In case anyone's curious, I am using Earthlink's webmail, > which is a PHP3-based app (with several issues, particularly handling > escaped characters and special characters in message replies). Am I one of > very few persons experiencing this? If not, could we (or have we already) > adopt some policy to enable those with this challenge to see code on > postings? There is something seriously wrong if your webmail is trying to execute the php code embedded inside an email. Is it a proprietory webmail system that Earthlink is using? -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* If people see that you mean them no harm, they'll never hurt you, nine times out of ten! */