Thanks Diane,
Pocketknife peek looks cool. Still if you're trying to forward 90 messages a
day to to SpamCop, every keystroke counts. And while Pocketknife peek
reduces the work, it's still a lot of work--plus Pocketknife peek is not
free for business use.
At home I use Mozilla. All I have to do is highlight the 90 messages, click
Forward, fill in the TO address and click Send. It's done in about as much
time as it takes to read that sentence.
Now try it with Outlook:
double-click SPAM message to open it (2 clicks - must open message to get at
headers)
alt-V, P, H, control-C (6 keystrokes -- this is fewer operations than
clicking in the Header and hitting control-A)
Close Options Requester (1 click)
control-N for new Message (2 keystrokes)
click in the Message text area and Paste (1 click, 2 keystrokes)
select original message (1 click)
control-a, control-c to get text message content (3 keystrokes)
OR
Right Click, Select View Source, control-a, c to get HTML message content,
close Notapad (3 clicks, 3 keystrokes)
select new message and control-V to paste SPAM message content (1 click, 2
keystrokes)
Control-Enter to send the message (2 keystrokes)
So with an HTML email, sending a message with headers intact takes 17
keystrokes and 9 mouse clicks by my count. Try doing that 90 times in a row.
That's 2340 separate operations for the 90 emails. It took me just over 30
seconds to complete the operation I described above, which would be 45
minutes for 90 emails.
Of course, I can't spend 45 minutes a day dealing with SPAM, which means
that in reality the SPAM complaints are never sent. All that to say why I
think Outlook is SPAM-friendly.
There is no question in my mind. The responsible thing for Microsoft to do
is to add an Advanced Email Option that says "forward full email headers" or
"include full headers when attaching email". The latter would best from my
point of view.
Kevin
Diane Poremsky said:
Google for an application called pocketknife peek - it makes things better.
Not sure how you are doing it - but I view, options on a r-click menu,
control A, control C. Close the dialog hit forward on the message and paste.
it's not a lot of extra work... but peek will save you a step or two,
especially if you want to look at the header.
As for why... since outlook is primarily the exchange client and only
internet mail has headers... and so few corporate users need headers, the
current location works well for most users.
--
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Kevin Davidson said:
The one thing that's making me seriously consider not using Outlook 2002 for
reading email, is that it simply refuses to forward full email headers.
The only way to do it is to manually open the email, and start navigating
menus until you get to where they are hidden (someone explain to me why an
email header belongs under something called "Options"), then reconstruct the
incoming email by hand, cutting and pasting.
It's like Outlook 2002 was designed to be spammer friendly, by making spam
reporting as hard as possible for the user.
Kevin
