Re: my farewell message:

"You put far too much faith in webmail. I consider them to be generally 
less secure than a local mail agent. I've found several web mail 
services that had the display of in-line images turned on by default - a 
security no-no. And web mail accounts are notorious for getting hacked - 
I often get spam and malware-loaded emails that have obviously come from 
friends whose Yahoo and other web mail accounts have been raided for 
their contacts list"
Thanks for wising me up. Although about 5 years ago, my tech recommneded webmail and a good browser security, which was FireFox


      From: Lin Sprague <[email protected]>
 To: Discussion list for Audacity users <[email protected]> 
 Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 4:01 AM
 Subject: Re: [Audacity-users] my farewell message:
   
On 7/10/2017 2:36 AM, Clyde Lyman wrote:
> What are the chances that this behaviour, which is beyond reckless, 
> could lead to an infection of this list?. 

The chance closely approaches zero. As far as I know, this list server 
does not transmit binary attachments, so you can't receive any of that 
kind of malware. The only danger would be if someone included in their 
message a URL to a malicious web site. You are in exactly the same 
amount of danger receiving an email from anybody else in the world, 
including your friends and family, as you are from this list.

>  Webmail accounts are by
> nature secure since they do not connect directly to the machine; the 
> browser is the "middle man" between them

You put far too much faith in webmail. I consider them to be generally 
less secure than a local mail agent. I've found several web mail 
services that had the display of in-line images turned on by default - a 
security no-no. And web mail accounts are notorious for getting hacked - 
I often get spam and malware-loaded emails that have obviously come from 
friends whose Yahoo and other web mail accounts have been raided for 
their contacts list.

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