The attachment you are refering to is actually a VCard, which contains more
contact information.  This is a feature available in Netscape email, among
others.  It is not widely used, though it has been included in netscape
communicator for several years.

I understand your position, though.  I have taken a position of trusting certian
individuals, and filtering people rather than you method of trusting certian
emails and filtering messages(such as those with attachments).  Francisco is an
individual I trust, and so I don't worry about his attachment.  If I ever needed
to eneter into a business relationship with him it would be very convenient
indeed to click the button "Add Card to Address Book" rather than requsting and
entering the information myself.

-Adam

P.S.
For all of you who are sitting on their reply button about to help me understand
the evils of self-propogating virii which send themselves using a trusted
person's email address blah blah blah, please save your time, my time and the
piclist bandwidth.  I work in several capacities of a small business, one of
which is systems and network administrator, and I am well versed in wroking with
and dealing with virii and their various permutations.  While I made a blanket
statment above as to how I /generally/ treat email, I certianly have far more
complex rules and habits which have kept me virus free since eighty-three.

artky1k@CTEL.NET wrote:
>
> Hey guy,
>
> I've been deleting your messages for months now because of the
> file attachments. I'm sure you have good things to say, but the
> security risk from any file attachment is real and I delete them
> without opening the messages unless it's information I requested.
>
> You can certainly do as you so choose, but I know other people
> who do this too-
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Art
>
> On 13 Apr 00, at 10:22, Francisco Armenta wrote: