"Pass It Along" letters

**"Lon J. Rombough" l*@hevanet.com**

   I learned something yesterday that surprised me and is worth passing
along.  When you get one of those letters that tells you to  you pass it
along to ten people,  you should know that if it's in HTML, with fancy fonts
and little pictures and such,  many such letters have code embedded in them
that collects the addresses of the people who get the letter and sends them
to a spammer.  You can avoid it by converting the letter to plain text, and
elminate any attachments with it.  In Outlook Express, you should have an
item on the top of the letter marked "options".  Go into that and where it
says "HTML" if you turn that off, that particular e-mail will automatically
be reformatted as plain text.
-Lon  Rombough

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