On 6 June 2011 07:42, Lindy Mayfield <lindy.mayfi...@ssf.sas.com> wrote: > what is that secure mailbox thing? I've never seen that before.
It's a scheme, almost certainly required by the poster's workplace, to ensure that the message cannot be viewed without that fact being logged. It makes sense in some corporate environments (the person appears to work for a health care insurance company), but it leads to a standoff when the recipient will not visit an unknown web site to receive mail of unknown usefulness. In a sense it is like registered mail, but in the Real World you normally have the opportunity to see the envelope before signing for the letter, and if you don't like the look of the sender you can refuse it. At least in the case here the web site is that of the sender, and not of some "secure email service provider". And unlike some such schemes it doesn't require a login or registration - the mail text is there right away. Of course it may lead to strange results when sent to a list like this where any number of people may visit the link, perhaps leading the would-be trackers to think that the sender is CCing a large number of people. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
