On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, H F wrote: >> From: winter at mac.com >> On Aug 10, 2010, at 12:42 PM, H F wrote: >>> >>> It wasn't the content that was inappropriate, it was the fact that >>> the pictures (100) were included in the post. I've seen many sigs >>> that included URL's but seldom have I had a sig that opened >>> automatically (and strangely at the top of the message). Images are >>> generally not considered appropriate in forums/lists. >> >> Must be a "feature" of whatever mail program/system you are using. The >> rest of us (or at least most of us?) just saw a link that had to be >> clicked. The web page was not embedded in the message like you're >> describing. It would be interesting to know how/why that happened. > I'm using hotmail and that's the first time it ever happened. None of the > other links in that message or even this one open(ed) automatically. As an > aside, when I get messages with "questionable" content, hotmail has > generally been pretty good about informing me that I should consider my > options I'd be interested in knowing what happened as well. I sent the original message, and there had better not have been *ANY* pictures embedded in it. In fact where possible I have my email list subscriptions set to text only as I feel pretty strongly on the subject. The link in my .sig is to my flickr photostream, and I have Eudora configued to send all of my email as plain ASCII text. Zane