To: Wright is right!
One thing you might consider is doing most of your emailing over the web.
ISPs like Earthlink let you send and receive emails using nothing but your normal browser, such as Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator. This is generally known as "webmail."
Earthlink also has a terrific spam filter for webmail that, when set to high, will bounce back emails from people who are not in your address book. I have it set to high and haven't had any trouble since then with viruses.
Other ISPs like Yahoo also have webmail that will scan attachements for viruses. At this point, I do all of my basic emailing over the web and only occassionally will download the emails I've already sent or screened to my regular email program, where they are stored on my computer.
So do a google for info on webmail, or ask your friends who use it. I'll bet, if you have a mainstream ISP, they already offer it.
To: The Radical Capitalist
"One thing you might consider is doing most of your emailing over the web." Not a chance. My ISP has perhaps the most user-friendly webmail service available and it's still far clunkier than Agent, which I love. Further, email is my business's lifeline, a front door for new and existing customers who buy and use my business telephone systems. I have specific accounts set up for this, but(of course) since there are email links all over my commercial web site, all the spam-spiders are going to easily reap them. So I put up with the spam and keep Norton current.
BTW, the new Norton setting someone else suggested yestertag has cleared up the problemo of Norton shooting off fireworks and launching a Mardi Gras Celebration everytime it picks up a virus. Now it just quietly quarantines it with no notice to me. THAT problemo is fixed.
Michael
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10/23/2003 6:57:20 AM PDT by
Wright is right!
(Never get excited about ANYTHING by the way it looks from behind.)
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