Myself wrote: > > Michael H. Warfield wrote: >> >> Okkk... An there there are web bugs. The little goodies that >> pull a special identifying image from their web site identifying your >> E-Mail address as a good one and worth putting on their platinum "we've >> qualified this address as good" list that they sell to other spammers. >> Reading spam in an HTML enabled reader is an incredibly good way to >> increase your spam traffic. The more you get the more you are qualified. >>
I've pretty much resolved that tracking technique locally... I run a transparent proxy (squid) with phroggy's bannerfilter installed (www.phroggy.com) Now, most of the images is replaced with "BLOCKED" :) > > Ok, I'll bite. You said plenty - you listed one - webbugs. > You can go offline before reading a message. > Like the other two boys said, no thank you. and besides, what if your mail account is an IMAP server? how are you going to access your email while offline then exactly? > Have you considered a typewriter, some paper and some white-out? > I've never understood this e-mail must only be plain text thing... Do you realize how many people out there doesn't have a html-enabled mailreader? like mutt, pine, mail or even telnet? And besides, more often than not, html mail contains ugly fonts/colors and is spam. -- Morten Nilsen, aka Dr. P We are the borg^]dbdbiMicrosoft. Prepare to be assimilated^]dbiembraced and extended. Resistance is futile^]dbdbdbiWe know you want it. :wq
