so not only does my email provider (work, gmail, etc) know to whom i sent the email, then they want to know who read it, too. that sounds quite silly (to me, at this point in my understanding.)
anyone I may send an email to, could read it, but to know who actuall did read it is important? i've thought about this, and I'm still in the dark. unless they are tracking ip addresses, which is stupid if somone who wants to be "secure" or "hidden" will go through a proxy server. still, if I click on the link, it proves nothing. everytime i reset my router i get a new ip address. so unless they have a court order they cannot (usually) find my name and address. but why would they? anyone of the thousands of people on IBM-MAIN could have clicked on it. are they going to track down each and everyone of us? ok, what I'm writing here is just getting stupider and stupider. But at least now I understnand Binyamin's footer on his emails. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc [t...@harminc.net] Sent: 06 June 2011 18:54 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: What is that link? (was RE: Personal update) 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
