Geoff,

> The reason for questioning this is that recently I received (NOT from
> this list) a copy of the Kakworm virus
> (http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/wscript.kakworm.html). The
> virus comes embedded as script inside the HTML. This means that
> simply reading the message is enough to activate the virus.

decent mailreaders let you disallow scripts in mail messages.
This does not include OE, unfortunately.

> Just curious as to whether your suggestion of "virus proof" is
> accurate or not. Does anyone receive HTML messages from this list any
> more?

Actually, it seems that I haven't received any HTML messages lately.
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