On 17 Mar 2006 at 14:14, Steve Gentry wrote:

> 
> 
> Hello. Could you guys (and gals) please include subject lines? I've
> made it a habit, for a long time now, not to open any email that 
> doesn't have a subject line. 


As an aside on not opening suspicious emails....
I understand that you don't open those because of a fear of 
possible payload. Over the last few years (since spam/viruses 
became the majority of my incoming mail) I have stopped 
"downloading email". 

To clarify - I download *headers only*,
and delete at source all suspicious emails. The good part 
about this is that if a subjectless email carries a name I think
is familiar, I look at the headers and see if it was sent via
the list server. If it was, I just assume that Dan made sure it 
has no virus in it. (Right, Dan? :-) )

>From the header list I select all the 'real' emails and only 
they are actually downloaded to my PC.

Shimon

P.S. If anyone is interested, the email client used is Pegasus 
email for Windows, running with Wine on Linux.

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