Hello Geoff Lane & everyone else,

on 05-Feb-2005 at 13:48 you (Geoff Lane) wrote:

> External images can be used for malevolent purposes. For example, as
> web beacons to track your usage, or for spammers to verify your e-mail
> address. So, yes, displaying html images direct from the web in e-mail
> can hurt.

This is a privacy, not a security issue. For that very reason the wish to
add a sender to a list of "trusted senders" from whom remote images are
allowed exists. Or a simple menu entry "download images now".

-- 
Best regards,
 Alexander (http://www.neurowerx.de - ICQ 238153981)

I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with
the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad
that won't last out the year. -- The editor in charge of business
books for Prentice Hall, 1957


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