[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: What about when someone emails a
> screen-scraping to you of an html page (that you may have requested)?
> Chances are likely there will be .jpg or .gif files on that page with
> some text in them. You cannot really risk throwing it all away unseen. > PAT]
Watch for the next releases of mail clients such as Outlook Express etc. to give mail users more control over emails containing in-line images, such as mail rules to filter any such emails where the sender is unknown.
Of course at the rate things are going pretty soon no one is going to be accepting emails from "strangers".
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