Richard Head wrote:
> "Ryan Germann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>>...but if you have an address book with every email address even
>>encountered by your Mozilla, then all those addresses will be victims of
>>an email virus. Fewer emails in address books means less propogation of
>>email viruses... especially where the feature is equally useful to some
>>as it is irritating to others. Have it off by default protects the
>>ignorant from propogating email viruses to huge lists of strangers.
>>
>
> only if you post to huge lists of strangers and never trouble to clean up
> your address book.
I suspect the vast majority of the people do not even know about this
feature. I only stumbled upon it inadvertently, and instantly disabled
it. If you combine the people that do not know about it with the people
who could care less, you will have a large percentage who will never
"clean up" their address book (whatever good that would do).
The people that want this can turn it on, but I also think it is
ridiculous to have it enabled by default. I I agree that I consider this
a major security risk. A case could reasonably be made for collecting
addresses on outgoing mail, but I can see no valid reason for the other
two. Having the default set to 700 addresses is just making things even
worse. Try 10 instead.
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