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On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:29:02 -0400, "Colbyt"
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Usually a message posted using a non-English language font. If you never
install those fonts you will have a much smaller chance of getting screwed
by the scammers from those countries. There really isn't anyone there that
I
want to talk to so I have all non-English fonts blocked on my computer.

What do you mean by blocking non-English fonts? What does that do?



IE and Outlook both have an "install on demand" feature for foreign language
fonts like Korean, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic and so on. If you turn that
feature off, when you get SPAM mail from those countries the sender and
title are gibberish. You just delete them and don't waste time opening
them.

If on the other hand you have "install on demand" on that text is rendered
in English by Outlook and you read their crap. A lot of SPAM comes from
those countries.

If you happen to visit a site written in the foreign font you may be asked
if you want to install it. I usually don't. Sometimes the page will load
correctly and other times I Google some more for an English speaking site.

Colbyt