On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 07:03 AM, Joost van de Griek wrote: >> It's my theorey that if you wait until you disconnect and then open >> any of the >> suspicious email, nothing gets sent to anyone and you can view the >> spam >> without making your presence known. > > True, but that is assuming that one does disconnect at some point, For > an > ever-increasing number of broadband users, that is not necessarily so. Now that they have a reason for doing so, they might choose to do so. If you use Airport, all you have to do is turn Airport Off. I can only speak for the DSL connection I had a few years ago, and I could disconnect/connect any time I wanted to. There is a button in Internet Connect for disconnecting. --- Why is it that the government can determine that a spam fax is worth a $500 penalty payble by the sender to the recipient but takes no stand on email spam? JackRodgers at earthlink.net http://www.JackRodgers.com http://www.LobateLacScale.com