>From: "James P. Salsman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>A MUA might ask the console operator for permission to proceed when:
>
>1. A mail message wants to run a program.  (e.g., ECMAscripts.)
>
>2. An attachment is executable. (Nearly universal practice.)
>
>3. A program wants to write to a file.  (Usually not trapped more
>than once per execution if at all.)
>
>4. A program wants to read your address book.  (Does any mail system
>that offers this functionality limit it at all?)
>
>5. A program wants to send mail.  (e.g., having MAPI's Send notify
>the user and queue the proposed message as a draft instead of sending.)
>
 6. A program wants to send a file to somewhere. Or any permanently stored
    information (like cookie but not limited).

               - Leonid Yegoshin.

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