Oh, but if you saw it contained a PDF, you opened the test message.?
And you certainly whined about it and asked if you should open it. Check the subject line you wrote, and you opened it after three others said not to, before I added the 4th negative reply to your question.?
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On Feb 14, 2025, at 22:56, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
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On Feb 14, 2025, at 11:07?PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
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Missed the point and viewed it any way. It may not include malware, but it definitely was spam.?
And he wonders why he keeps getting more spam. Because he keeps letting them know his e-ddress and phone number are alive and active, by opening them.?
Brent:
Neither of your (grammatically weird) assertions is true.
- A user doesn¡¯t ¡°open¡± an iMessage. It¡¯s readable as it arrives. So, unless I had some way of preventing an iMessage from arriving on one of my devices solely because I¡¯d never received one from that phone number previously (or even just as difficult, preventing a message from reaching me solely because it contained a pdf (which of course would prevent me from receiving MANY, MANY legitimate messages even if I COULD do so), I had no way to prevent myself from ¡°viewing¡± the message.
- Nothing in my question to the list asserted that I had no idea why I receive so much spam.
I did not click any links in the pdf.
Here¡¯s a direct quote from an apple.com user support page (which doesn¡¯t lessen my concern about using Quicklook on an iMessage attachment).
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Jim Robertson
Brent