> Another thing you can do is turn off the graphics in your mail reader. I
> am on a dial up and use Thunderbird to read my mail. If I want to see
> the graphics, I turn it on. I also leave attachments on my ISP's server
> until (if) I want to download them.
<LUDD>
Email should be plain-text.
If you read email in HTML and allow your mail client (Thunderbird,
Outrage Express, whatever) to go get images from a remote webserver,
you're letting that webserver and whoever runs it (or mines data from
it) know that email got to someone and who read it and when.
</LUDD>
John.
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