Digital BW, The Print

Bob Frost writes:

> The SP2 version of Outlook Express has the option of
> preventing the download of images in emails ...

So why not just upgrade Outlook Express; do you really have to reinstall
the entire operating system??

I moved to the current e-mail client I use (the Bat) mainly to get past
some limitations of Outlook Express, one of them being the limited
filtering capability (if you filter out messages that are specified as
multipart/alternative, you catch 99% of spam, but OE won't do that), and
another being the ability to completely disable any type of HTML
interpretation.  I just see text, no matter how a message was sent.
Spam is almost invariably in HTML; normal e-mail (at least among my
correspondents) is almost invariably plain text.

> ... (some ISP's give this option as well).

The very last thing I'd want is for my ISP to get into the act.

There are clients whom I cannot contact because their ISP thinks I'm a
spammer and blocks my e-mail.  Apparently anything not coming from a
corporation with 100,000 employees is treated as spam.

> Since some spammers detect whether you have received their spam by
> whether you have downloaded their images, stopping the images prevents
> them knowing that you have received their spam, and you eventually get
> taken off the spam list as a 'waste of time'.

I don't think that works very well.  I never download images, but I
still get just as much spam (over 1000 spam e-mails a day).