Our concern here is that one of our members may have had his mail client hacked or his mail path may be compromised.
Naturally its best .. although annoying .. to turn off images. We would not have found this otherwise. I'll be contacting folks who appear to have this problem. -- Owen On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Barry MacKichan < barry.mackic...@mackichan.com> wrote: > Most mail clients make displaying remote images in HTML optional. I never > display images automatically; if I trust the sender, I can click "Show > images" button that mail.app puts up. > > These invisible images mean that the sender's server server gets hit every > time one of their emails gets opened (unless you've set the option > correctly). You can bet that the two 40-character 'folder names' encode > your email address in some way. > > I would hope that if they never get a ping back from me that they would > conclude that my spam filter is swallowing it and take me off their list. I > know, I know, but I can dream. > > --Barry > > > On Mar 22, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > > Yesterday, I noticed in the middle of the "You just went to the Google > homepage" conversation, my GMail "accept this image" banner was on, but I > could see no image! > > WTF? > > So I look at the raw source, and indeed, this appears: > > https://app.yesware.com/t/ac60524099a2c2922efb3fea7fcd30ecf03a1=482/5bb54418d45ddd9646340c46dfba6e56/spacer.gif > > .. which when downloaded was a single pixel, invisible due to alpha=0 and > possibly being white. > > This seems to be a way of knowing when the mail was opened, the > yesware.com site can collect statistics on the image being displayed. > > Is anyone doing this on purpose? Or have you caught a malware in your > mail client that is looking at your usage? Or is it simply part of an > obscure formatting stunt? > > BTW: This then appeared in all the rest of the conversation which included > the initial email. > > -- Owen > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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