junk mail

[GCC Consulting]

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elestial.com] On Behalf Of Fairlight
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 4:59 AM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: junk mail
> 
> 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.
> 

Still there but one has a choice to use this "feature".  For the most part,
I leave it off.  It is only in use for mail from the list.

Richard