Flashes of Panic

With my new Mac at home talking to my old Mac (and the two of them therefore cutting me out,) I’ve been working on department machines today, living on the web and on my department account. Like being on the road, it slows down the rate at which I can get anything done, because my familiar tools aren’t close at hand.

One thing I’ve noticed in relying on webmail rather than a desktop mail client is that SquirrelMail, at least the version my webhost is using, doesn’t display inline email graphics by default. This means that even though I’m deprived of the very helpful spam filter on my mail client, the spam that does get through is essentially gibberish: the image, where the real sales message lies, is simply not shown. I still have to delete the mail, but I don’t have to make any effort to ignore the contents.