In article >, Chuck > wrote:

> On 7/2/2010 3:35 AM, barry wrote:
> > outlook express had too many vulnerabilities vis a vis
> > viruses/hackers/etc.
> >
> Really out of the news group area, but--
>
> Only if O.E. was setup to automatically open stuff, and not in text mode.
>
> I will admit/agree that some versions were susceptible, to the point
> that I used an MS unreleased "stripped" version for some time with XP.
>
> Back then, I was one of the longer term real MS MVPs, from the
> compuserve days until 2004. Too many other concerns, including health to
> continue. The older longer term MVPs as I was, were given annual
> subscriptions to MSN Universal and a full TecNet subscription, as well
> as a free MSN "executive" account. Windows "call home for help" is an
> outgrowth of an idea and suggestion I made in 1999 at Redmond.
>
> I also regret the abandonment of O.E., and have gone to Thunderbird for
> daily use in Win7 and Vista. I do have outlook 07, but seldom use it.
>
> I used to like O.E. because it had the ability to read and display raw
> source, headers, routing, etc. without execution of embedded code. That
> helped in hunting down some of the dumber spammers and so forth.
Barry, as you say, displaying raw source, headers, message area is useful. I'll
assume you know, but not everyone else does, that it's trivial to do that with
Thunderbird (the same as displaying raw html with Firefox) with just a Cmd-u
(for OS X) or ctl-u (for GNU/Linux or MS).

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