Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Frost"
<bob@f...> wrote:
> Peter,
> 
> < I DISagree with people here who say SP2 will fix your spam problems.
> <  Spam has nothing to do with the OS.
> 
> I think you will find that it does. The SP2 version of Outlook
Express has 
> the option of preventing the download of images in emails (some
ISP's give 
> this option as well).

A.  That has nothing to do with XP.   Outlook Express is an email
client that is totally separate from XP.  For example, I run XP but I
don't even have Outlook Express on my system.     Microsoft may
include patches to their application programs as part of the same
package of software that includes patches to XP, but that doesn't make
them part of XP.

B.  If the image is embedded in the email then the sender has no way
of knowing if it was "downloaded".  The situation you're thinking of
is when the image resides on the spammer's server.   And that doesn't
get downloaded until you open message.   And no one short of an idiot
opens email he's not expecting.