OT : HTML privacy risk ??

1999-12-07 Thread Rob
hi, i never like HTML in e-mail to start with, but now i'll just disable it ... just read that the spammers found a new trick ; when you view a message in HTML they retrieve an 'invisible' picture from a site and put your e-mail address in a cookie ... http://www.eff.org/pub/Privacy/Profiling

Re: OT : HTML privacy risk ??

1999-12-07 Thread Roel
\\\|/// / ~ _ \ (- O o -) --oOOo-(_)-oOOo--- Hello Rob, R> just read that the spammers found a new trick ; when you view a message in R> HTML they retrieve an 'invisible' picture from a site and

Re: OT : HTML privacy risk ??

1999-12-07 Thread Ali Martin
Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i never like HTML in e-mail to start with, but now i'll just disable it ... > just read that the spammers found a new trick ; when you view a message in > HTML they retrieve an 'invisible' picture from a site and put your e-mail > address in a cookie ... >

Re: OT : HTML privacy risk ??

1999-12-07 Thread Rob
Hello all, on Tuesday, December 07, 1999 at 10:28:01 AM, Ali wrote : > TB! will only view HTML and nothing more. The reason why TB! will not > view imbedded images in HTML pages sent, but it does !! someone sent me an e-mail with a background and pictures and TheBat shows it all ... as long as

Re: OT : HTML privacy risk ??

1999-12-07 Thread Ali Martin
Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> TB! will only view HTML and nothing more. The reason why TB! will not >> view imbedded images in HTML pages sent, > but it does !! someone sent me an e-mail with a background and pictures and > TheBat shows it all ... as long as the stuff is attached to

Re: OT : HTML privacy risk ??

1999-12-07 Thread Alexander V. Kiselev
Hi there! On 7 Dec 99, at 23:53, Rob wrote about "Re: OT : HTML privacy risk ??": > > TB! will only view HTML and nothing more. The reason why TB! will not > > view imbedded images in HTML pages sent, > > but it does !! someone sent me an e-mail with a backgrou

Re[2]: OT : HTML privacy risk ??

1999-12-08 Thread Andrew Brown
AM> The official release of TB version 1.38 is available at: AM> ftp://ftp.ritlabs.com/pub/the_bat/the_bat.exe SOmething cute I just discovered: double click on that link and it fires up my FTP client and goes to get the file. I knew this worked with http urls. It's very clever to do it with c