You can safely view the message as I received it at:

http://www.bixby.org/mark/howareyou.txt

The first thing to notice is the javascript code beginning with "<script>".
This creates a new window of 1 pixel in size that executes the specified CGI.
There should be no reason to do a 1 pixel window unless you have something to
hide.  Because I unfortunately had Javascript enabled for my Netscape
Communicator 4.73 e-mail, this did open a new window for me, but it was bigger
than one pixel.  I didn't see any content in that window, so I immediately
closed it.  I have just disabled Javascript for e-mail.

When I view that javascript CGI URL directly from a browser, it does a redirect
to some music-oriented web page.  If I view source on it, I don't see anything
blatantly evil.

If I manually view the other URLs in the bottom of the message, they all do
similar redirects to pages in Chinese.  Again, by doing View Source on them, I
don't see anything blatantly evil.

Now it's quite possible that these redirecting CGIs can detect if you're
running Outlook and then do something evil.  So I'm not willing to forward this
message over to my Outlook mailbox.  ;-)

If I try to view any of these URLs with MSIE5, it goes into an auto-update mode
trying to download additional browser components.  At this point, I do
Ctrl-Alt-Del and then "End task" to prevent any further action.  It's possible
this is to deal with Chinese character sets, but I'm not willing to find out.

- Mark B.