On 11/18/03 9:09 PM, Christopher Gill enlightened us by writing: > >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.
True, but I figure spammers are working on how to make the browser go online (durn, but they're ingenious buggers!). If I'm not connected, there's no way (unless I have Airport installed, maybe). And as Chris pointed out, some browsers have security bugs in them. >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. I'd rather not have unneeded programs on my drive if I can help it (one email client, one graphics program, one multipurpose program - AppleWorks - etc.). and Chris wrote: >I like the program CanOpener. It will open the HTML file, and then you >can run the HTML filter against the file. This strips all HTML code out >of the way, and lets you just read the embedded text. CanOpener has no >HTML renderer, so it won't make any attempts to go online (in fact, >CanOpener totally lacks any way of going on line at all) Like that idea better if I have to use a second program at all. My double pennies, Jim Rohde This message produced with a minimum of 37% post-consumer recycled electrons. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
