Hi HP3000-L,

I tire of receiving HTML-laden spam e-mails that allow the sender to know that
I've read the e-mail by virtue of Netscape 6.2.1's rendering of the HTML which
causes HTTP requests for inline images to be sent back to the spammer's web server.

Unfortunately Netscape 6.2.1 does not appear to let you suppress HTML rendering
on e-mail.  A Google search against Usenet shows many other people complaining
about the same thing, and the Netscape developers plan to add this
functionality "in a future release".

A partial workaround is to delete a probable spam message without reading it,
but I receive lots of legitimate e-mail from strangers who don't use decent
Subject: headers, so I do have to open a subset of these suspect messages, and
a portion of them do turn out to be spam.

As an alternative, I tried setting up a Netscape message filter to look for
certain HTML tags in the body of the message and then move the message to a
special folder which I can then examine and delete all messages that are likely
to be spam.  I.e. if a message contains HTML, and it's not from somebody I
know, and the Subject: is suspicious, then I'll delete it without opening it.
This will allow plaintext legitimate messages (and plaintext spam) to remain in
my regular inbox to be opened later.

But unfortunately I can't get body content filtering to work consistently.
Most HTML spam is left in my inbox, despite it containing the full and partial
HTML tags that I am listing in the "body contains" filter rules.

If anybody out there is successfully using Netscape 6.2.1 to filter out HTML
e-mail, I'd like to find out how you're doing it.

Thanks!
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