On 1-apr-04, at 18:49, Michel Py wrote:
In other words: if you're already to the point where you are using a
text-mode mail client or disabling HTML and/or other stuff in a GUI
client, you are no loss to the spammer if your email does not confirm
as
valid (because you would not even read it nor b
>> Michel Py wrote:
>> In other words: if you're already to the point where
>> you are using a text-mode mail client or disabling
>> HTML and/or other stuff in a GUI client, you are no
>> loss to the spammer if your email does not confirm
>> as valid (because you would not even read it nor buy
>>
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 17:15:10 UTC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't quite understand how that would work.
...
> unless instead of using something like
> "http://spammersserver.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> they rewrite it into "http://emailidstring.spammerserver.com";
> and use some custom dns server
> William Leibzon wrote:
> But I really dont see how this would be any different then just
> logging with cgi, it'll result in positive logging for exactly
> same set of people.
> For example as I'm using PINE from unix shell, all those html
> images are not referenced in any way, nor are there re
To pick on one bulk political mailer, Kintera.Org, mail from
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
contains a tracking gif, a 1x1, within the html portion of a multipart MIME
payload. Voila:
http://www.kintera.org/omt/70069677.gif'>
Yes I've kevetched to the Kucinich campaign that putting tracking gifs in
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> On 4/1/2004 11:15 AM, william(at)elan.net wrote:
>
> > Where as WYSIWYG html email client (no matter if its web-based or
> > outlook or mozilla) will reference and display all images contained in
> > email
>
> You can turn it off in Mozilla and some MS
On 4/1/2004 11:15 AM, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> Where as WYSIWYG html email client (no matter if its web-based or
> outlook or mozilla) will reference and display all images contained in
> email
You can turn it off in Mozilla and some MS clients. It's a pretty common
feature nowadays.
--
E
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Richard Cox wrote:
> Some times the request goes to the website, sometimes a DNS request to
> nameservers is sufficient to cause the account to be tagged as active.
I don't quite understand how that would work. DNS Request does not contain
name of who the email is addressed
(Subject line changed to comply with Merit's AUP)
On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 13:28:31 UTC Jerry Eyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> it sends a request to the sender's specified website to get the pixel
> thus showing them which email accounts are active.
Some times the request goes to the website, somet
