Closed Bug 272984 Opened 20 years ago Closed 14 years ago

Provide means to block images in HTML NNTP (News) messages

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Backend, enhancement)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Backend
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: alexeys, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: 1.0RC1 20041202

I have NNTP//RSS 0.5 beta 1 installed and it default installation there is
com.russellbeattie weblog. Images in that weblog are not blocked.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Install and run NNTP//RSS 0.5, configure Thunderbird to read all newsgroups from
it, go to com.russellbeattie weblog and look for messages with images.
Actual Results:  
Images are not blocked in NNTP account even though the global configuration is
set to block them.

Expected Results:  
Images should be blocked.

The message source:

From: Russell Beattie Notebook <weblog@russellbeattie.com>
Newsgroups: com.russellbeattie
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 21:50:11 GMT
Subject: Charging for Customization
Message-ID: <dJ8FstObuk5J1S5WcB2zHQ==@com.russellbeattie>
Path: nntprss
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

<html>
<head><base href='http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/'>
<body>

<p align="center">
<img src="http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/images/bmsanta.png">
</p>

So one of the more interesting things in the new MSN Messenger Beta - besides
"innovations" like copying Yahoo's audibles, nudges and IMvironments - is the
fact that you can *buy* customizations. This is a concept that was introduced to
me just recently. There's internet communities in Korea where they make tons of
money from people buying modifications for online avatars. 
<p>
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0721/092_print.html">This article in
Forbes</a> talks about how extensive it is:
<blockquote><i>
More than 3.6 million Koreans have avatars, or virtual selves, representing them
in chat rooms and e-mail. At Oh My Love, Korea's biggest video chat service,
avatars are quickly evolving from cute cartoonlike human figures into animations
of moving lips, floating dragons and shooting stars. New services have cropped
up, including avatar cosmetic surgery, pets and, coming soon, houses. "There is
so much to do," says Stanley Ho, president of Neowiz, the biggest avatar
purveyor. Its revenue from virtual merchandise should double this year to $65
million, with $15 million in profit. 
</i></blockquote>

<p>
My instinctive thought is that this is ridiculous. Who would pay a few dollars
for just a few kilobytes of graphics and virtual add-ons? It's not like you're
modding your car or skateboard with stickers, this stuff is not real! But then I
think of how big ringtones and wallpapers are on mobile phones and I think
twice. Obviously people like customizing their technology and online experience.
A lot. 
<p>
The question is how big of a business is this? Obviously Microsoft thinks that
it could be interesting enough to throw it out there with this latest release
and see what happens. I personally wonder how big it'll be for mobile data
services. My original assumption about ringtones was that it was the music
people were interested in, but it looks like it may just be the customization
and personalization. Maybe it doesn't *matter* what the content is, as long as
it has some sort scarcity (i.e. for money) and is able to be shared, there's
value in it. 
<p>
I mean, BlueMountain is charging $3 for a set of smiley .gifs? There's some
weird market forces going on there that I need to get a handle on. 
<p>
-Russ







<p>
<a
href="http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008192.html#comments">Comments</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;
Link: <a
href="http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008192.html">http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/1008192.html</a>
<br>
<hr>
<table width='100%' border='0'><tr><td align='left' valign='top'>

<font size='-1'>
<a href='http://www.russellbeattie.com/notebook/'>Russell Beattie
Notebook</a><br>My online notebook with thoughts, comments, links and more.
</font>
</td><td align='right' valign='top'>
<font size='-1'>Served by <a
href="http://www.methodize.org/nntprss">nntp//rss</a>
v0.5-beta-1</font></td></tr></table>
</body></html>
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still true
Assignee: mscott → nobody
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: General → MailNews: Backend
OS: Windows XP → All
Product: Thunderbird → Core
QA Contact: backend
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: Images in HTML NNTP messages are not blocked → Provide means to block images in HTML NNTP (News) messages
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Product: Core → MailNews Core
Alexey is it still true with the lastest builds from thunderbird 3.0 ?(http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/downloads/)
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE due to lack of response to comment 4.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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