[SpamCop-List] Re: spam within spam?

[Mike Easter]

Porpoise wrote:
> "Mike Easter"

>> I'm driving OE 6.00.2800.1123 - I'm Win98 not XP, I can't do anything
>> with XP-SP2, which affects OE.
>>
>> You are 6.00.2900.2670
>
> Aha... therein lies the difference - in "my" version of OE there is a
> seperate checkbox for that called "Download Images"

I found a picture of yours
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/images/expertzone/columns/bowman/oesecurity.jpg
it has the extra section in the middle called 'Block images and other
external content in html mail"  The article which discusses it is here
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/expert/bowman_introtosp2.mspx

> Perhaps that's all part of keeping software up-to-date   ;-)  and
> with all the latest security updates/patches.......

Except that that particular up-to-date-ness involves XP, and MS and I
got a divorce about that time.  I decided that my upgrade path after
98se was going to be Linux, unless I could find a really good deal on
W2K.  That is, my upgrade was going to be linux in any case, but that I
was willing to spend a very little time or money on 2K, but not XP.
That deal hasn't yet come along.

I refuse to pay the MS tax just to buy new hardware any more, and
fortunately you don't usually have to do that anymore.  Dell is holding
out, but I can usually beat their deals if I shop long enough.  Well,
Dell sells MS-less hardware, but they never make any real good deals on
it like they do their MS ware.  Very strange how that works.  Like the
fix is in between MS & Dell.  There oughta be a law of some kind or
another -- it isn't just 'business' when the collusion between the
bid'ness men becomes unfair practices.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin