James Rohde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 11/17/03 1:51 PM -> >One way of viewing the email without the hazard (via dialup or broadband) >which I have used is first to disconnect from the Internet (unplug the >modem or the cable (which is connected to your cable/DSL modem), and ONLY >then open the email in your browser or other viewer. Any attempt by the >HTML to connect shouldn't work, and you can then quit the browser, trash >the HTML attachment (and email), and reconnect to the Internet for normal >stuff.
It should be simpler than that. Set your browser to "off-line" mode, in which it will render HTML but without connecting to any internet site, and then read your HTML e-mail. You can also set your browser to not render images, although not all "spam-verification" links are image files. For convenience, you could run a second, "lightweight" browser in off-line or no-image mode just for reading HTML e-mail. Alternatively, you could use the program HTML Viewer from Sassafras Software, which is a somewhat limited offline-only browser. There's also Wannabe - a lightweight (and blazingly quick) text-only browser (so it doesn't render image HTML), although I don't think it has an offline-only mode. Wannabe lets you open any page currently being viewed in the browser of your choice, which is good for quickly browsing through the textual content of pages (especially on slow connections) until you get one you want, and then viewing the page you want in the heavyweight browser. It will also save the files for links which it can't render. /*==================================================================== "Don't die wondering..." ====================================================================*/ ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
