Re: [NTLK] [OT?] Spam?

On 7/16/2009 8:40 PM, Bob Carls Dudney wrote:
> Final point in case unfamiliar:
>
> Never open a spam while connected. Many have clear gifs that confirm
> ones email address to sender. Another reason not to check mail via
> browser.

Ah good point. And another reason to use something like thunderbird
with the images and HTML off. This makes it impossible for a email to
"phone home" and let a spammer know it is a good address. Also for
those that don't know, there is a webmail extension to download email
from a webmail account (yahoo, hotmail, lycos mail, etc). This
shouldn't trigger the "phone home" either unless you view it with html
and images on and lets you access your webmail accounts and apply your
filters etc that you already have in thunderbird if you need them. Not
to mention the searching is a whole lot better.

-Dan

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