On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Robbie Honerkamp wrote: > > I remember reading about this several months ago. It was the opinion > > of most people at the time to be just a joke. Anyone know for sure > > if it is anything other than a joke? > > Not true. You can't get a virus from reading an email message.
Actually this is something that can be disputed quite lot, but thankfully its not something that would happen while using Debian/Linux. Just to point out, what I mean by that is that one of the most common ways that I know for passing around all those macro viruses, that now exist in M$-Word and Excel, will quite heavily spread around throught M$-Mail or about any other mailer that supports easy interface for adding those documents or spreadsheets as attachments. -- Juha 'Ylis' Ylitalo [EMAIL PROTECTED] <work e-mail> +358 0 511 23313 http://www.helsinki.fi/~jylitalo <public www> "True friendship is never serene." - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal