At 10:56 +0100 2004:11:16, Mikael Bystr�m wrote:
David Lesher said:

The Phish wars are way past that...
Past what?

His mentioned "phish bait"...

 >I see gif's with the URL embedded in the GIF & similar.
Your point being? In a text-only email message Gifs are largely
irrelevant, reside on the hard disk or in my case, because of scripting,
in my trash can. If one allow messages to automatically fetch materials
from the net, then that is a serious security risk.


I agree; and that's why I use elm on my Linux box.

But there are an ever increasing number of phish hooks out there to get less wary victims..


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