Hi Jim, You presume. Yours, fred.vansand2@verizon.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Davis" <ydavis@hkg.odn.ne.jp> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 8:03 PM Subject: Re: magazine publishing rights help > Fred van Sand <vze59cgy@verizon.net> wrote/replied to: > > (big sniperoo) > >More to the point, I don't think the people > >in this group would knowingly send an e-mail with a virus. There are many > >safeguards in place on the various servers we use so transmission of a virus > >is unlikely in any event. Oh, yes, there is a twit filter in Outllook. > > Fred, it's pretty obvious, no offense intended, that you are very > naive with respect to the internet, HTML, and viruses. Most viruses > are sent completely unknown to the sender. And virus makers are very > smart and getting craftier every day. No server no program can keep up > with it. But there is a better way we can take this all in hand > ourselves... > > I guarantee if you send no HTML, and view no HTML you will not get 99 > percent of viruses going around. There are still some new ones that > directly affect your computer, and that's what the firewall is for. > > Therefore send no HTML, and do not view it if you're smart. Virus > checker or no, it only takes one new one to ruin your whole day, maybe > more. It's a plague I tell you! > > There is no need for HTML. It's just fancy dressing that grows > tiresome after a short time. If you are smart you will not use Outlook > Express. I use a program called Agent that does not do HTML period. > It's fantastic though for email with features OE only dreams of for > organizing and filtering email. Not to mention it's the best thing for > Newsgroups ever invented. Eudora and many other fine email programs > can be setup for no HTML but Agent does not need this. > > > Jim Davis > Nature Photography > http://www.kjsl.com/~jbdavis/ > >
