if you'd take time to investigate your "fact" you'd see that there is an
option to disable that
Tools/Options/Email Options/Tracking Options


> Blame? I was stating fact. Point is, you or I are not going to reverse
> engineer and change Outhouse so that it doesn't do that anymore. On the
> other hand, I'm sure there is an open source email client and email server
> (more likely for Linux than M$) and with that we have a hope of
> removing the
> "feature" and preserving our privacy.

> I don't know what experiences you have had with SPAM, but what I've been
> through makes my blood boil.

I've had to change email account several times due to spam, so yes, i've
suffered under it as well. I might also add that this was not from my use of
any email package at the time, its from leaving your email address on a web
page where a robot can easily find it. What i've done now with some
reasonable success is not to have my email address displayed on any web
pages.

This brings me to another point. The web archives of the piclist all have
our emial addresses displayed. Can we not blank those out or at least add a
bit into it that would make it invalid for an automatic scanning program?

Regards
 John