Re: Email question

We at IBM was writing code to prevent that auto-opening mail for 
Microsoft to include into Outlook in 98.  VBscripts and javascript 
includes in HTML mail both can do it.  Of course only on Windows. 
Not virus software but actual code that prevents and e-mail package 
from excepting commands from unopened text files.

At 1:11 AM -0500 8/10/02, Gary Krockover wrote:
>  > I interpreted that original message as meaning an email arrives on
>>  your computer and it auto opens to try and force you to read text.
>>
>
>How would such a script be written?  I've never come across an email that
>automatically opens and forces me to read it.  A pop up, of course.  An
>email?  Would you write a script to automatically execute the visitors email
>app to call the email?  I don't know any viruses even that opens its message
>automatically thus launching it.
>
>Of course he was talking about a mailto link.  There was 3 or 4 replies with
>the same answer I gave.  We all "got it".
>
>GK


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Kid Stevens

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