[SC-Help] Re: Giving them my email

[Mike Easter]

Fred k wrote:
> "Mike Easter"
>> The business of 'how can I open my spam securely' is a nightmare that
>> I'm totally against.  How about if we all just figure out how to not
>> open spam at all, instead of trying to figure out how to open spam
>> for some kind of purpose that I have to dissect as well.  Spam
>> openers are a big pain.  I have to be able to read their
>> mind/attitude/pledgedness.  I have to be able to figure out their
>> security competency.  I have to figure out a myriad of different
>> kinds of interfaces.
>>
>> My rule about not opening spam is a lot simpler;  just a little
>> difficult to implement sometimes.
>
> OE has text only read mode. In additon the latest updates make it so
> that you have to "allow images download" so that seems to prevent the
> problem of announcing that a spam mail has been looked at or am I
> wrong about that?

You are correct, but...

Yes;  there have been dramatic improvements in the ability of OE to open
spam securely /technically/ by preventing the rendering of html.  But
you see where we/you are going?  Well now, let me see.... which version
of which mailuser agent?  In what exact configuration?  Which webmail?
What configuration?

But I still don't want people opening their spam 'insecurely', because
their brains so frequently aren't properly secured.  Maybe the spam
content will just 'demand' or convince that they paste a spamvertised
url into their browser's addressline to go see more.

So, I believe the answer to "how can I open my spam securely' is 'maybe
you can't, or maybe you can, but you shouldn't.'

People who want to read their spam are suspect to be people who might be
receptive to some spam.  I would rather that everyone is pledged and the
closest thing they come to the body of a spam is inspecting raw html in
the message source.

I would rather that their eyeballs don't fall on something which carries
the message of the spammer in any kind of readable, much less attractive
package.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin