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Story: Spammers 'using bugs' to find active email addresses

Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 15 April 2004, 10:18 AM)

AOL 9.0 deactivates images and HTML in emails from people not in your address book by default, so hopefully AOL users will have less of a problem with this particular technique. For these 'unknowns' you can click a button to turn them back on if its a legitimate mail. The pref can be turned off if you'd prefer. Mozilla mail 'sanitises' the HTML of items it thinks are spam using its Bayesian filters, but I don't think it goes as far as the AOL protection where all unknown addresses are sanitised. Are there any plugins or preferences that may help Outlook Express users? I don't use it, but most home users do. Of course, they could switch to Mozilla Thunderbird - I'm very happy with it!