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[Tom Palmquist]

Fairlight stated the following on 4/13/2007 4:58 AM:
> This public service announcement was brought to you by Tom Palmquist:
>> I use Mozilla Thunderbird and the simple act of reading
>> a message causes no issues as you describe. However if
>> there is a link or you respond to such a message, could
>> possibly produce such results.
>>
>> I'm not familiar with M$'s email or any others, but just
>> reading a message should NOT produce the results you
>> mention. Clicking on links or responding, may.
>>
>> 'nuff said?
> 
> No.  I seem to recall that Outlook and possibly Express had auto-open
> facilities at least at some point in their version history, whereby
> absolutely no human action other than opening the -message- would open the
> attachments.  Unsure if it's non-defaulted, removed, or still an issue to
> unconfigure, but it was an issue at some point.
> 
> m->

Then, what better reason NOT to use the M$ stuff?
That's scary.

Tom