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Subject: Re: Spam Avoidance (OT)

Author: margolies,marc

Date: 18:47:37 09/10/03

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no it's not the same. but the effect might be similar if your email does not
open browser artifacts that way( which indicates the validity of your email
address to the spam sender.)
My method relies on the use of software firewalls and assigns rules to the
priviledges of different applications, therefore it does not rely on the fact
that the designer of any application I use to be honest (eg. different forms of
'spyware')

On September 10, 2003 at 19:52:09, Edward Seid wrote:

>Using Outlook Express, is this the same as Tools - Options - Read tab - check
>'Read all messages in plain text' ?
>
>
>On September 10, 2003 at 19:33:51, margolies,marc wrote:
>
>>1) instruct your firewall software to deny http priviledges to your mail reading
>>application(outlook, eudora eg.). Then those persons who send 'sniffing'
>>junkmail with http hooks don't get a response from you and the crap doesn't
>>multiply.



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