[conspire] Inserting Ads Into Message Postings?

[William Lazar]

On Mar 6, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Rick Moen wrote:

> Yucko.  Sorry, the notion that carrying out dangerous tasks at the
> behest of public Web sites just because they're on your buddy list  
> rings
> my bullshit detector:  If they're dangerous, they're dangerous -- and
> it's smarter to ensure that your Web browser is unwilling to do them
> _at all_, on any site, or equivalently that they are undertaken but  
> are
> prevented in some fashion from having deleterious effects.
>
> I might be willing to trust a site's dangerous Web requests, _if_ I'm
> personally in sole control of that site plus relevant routers and  
> DNS.  ;->

Just curious Rick but are you saying that you run your browser with  
JavaScript off? There are so many web apps that require it these days,  
including the one from my company, that I'm a little surprised if true.

Bill