Top Ten Reasons to Install Windows XP Service Pack 2
I found this tonight. (In case you're still undecided.)
Comments
- Anonymous
August 29, 2004
Reason number 8 is:
> Improvements to Outlook Express help reduce
> unwanted e-mail by limiting the possibility
> of your e-mail address being validated by
> potential spammers.
Except when it does the opposite. When you forward a complaint to the administrators of the spammer's hosting ISPs, Outlook Express still forwards to the spammer the same validations that it used to do when displaying the original spam.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;843018&product=windowsxpsp2