Digital BW, The Print

If you have a good provider you shouldn't get that many spam. SP2 is some kind of a band aid on a wooden leg. To me it is just a rotten patch. I have tried it twice and my hard disk needed to be formated just after installation,  nothing was working anymore, but everyone has his own experience, I think the less the better, but it is interesting to have everyone experience and idea.

It is the same for everything, it is a matter of personnal choice and camera is no exception, when Nikon started the FA some thirty years ago I sold all my equipment because I knew electronic and automatism would invade our cameras and all what I needed was a shutter and a diaphragm. So I switched to another brand where I was sure I could get all manual gear for a long time, I never had to regret it.



  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bob Frost 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 10:29 AM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Windows XP Service Pack 2


  Peter,

  < I DISagree with people here who say SP2 will fix your spam problems.
  <  Spam has nothing to do with the OS.

  I think you will find that it does. The SP2 version of Outlook Express has 
  the option of preventing the download of images in emails (some ISP's give 
  this option as well). Since some spammers detect whether you have received 
  their spam by whether you have downloaded their images, stopping the images 
  prevents them knowing that you have received their spam, and you eventually 
  get taken off the spam list as a 'waste of time'.

  They'll probably find a way round this eventually, but for now it seems to 
  work.

  Bob Frost.


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