HI Bastian,
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:09:07 +00, Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ wrote:
> Hi List,
> often I receive 'newsletters' by e-mail... nothing unusual.
> But sometimes those newsletters in HTML contain images and displayed in
> Arachne there appear 'red boxes'.
> Red boxes because the images are NOT present.
This happens if you read the HTML while off-line ?
> The HTML newsletter is an attachment and the images ought to be
> attachments too... but they are not there.
So they are called from the email-sender's server space.
> Since most users use M$ to handle their e-mail I suppose M$ Outlook
> users can view the images in the HTML message...
> Are the immages someway concealed into the HTML file?
No.
> Or are the images not downloaded from the provider by Arachne. If the
> latter is true than my mailbox would be some day be filled with not
> downloaded images and that is not the case.
> ??? Any explanations?
1) The HTML attachment calls the images from the email-sender's web
server. This allows the sender's server to confirm that the email
address is a live one, and that the receiver has opened the attachment.
If it was sent by a spammer, then your address has been validated as
"live" and you go onto a commercial list.
I get a lot of these.
2) Alternatively, this is not a spammer, but the sender has linked
the email HTM attachment to files on his/her own hard disk, but has
forgotten to send the graphics as well (After all, it works on HIS
machine).
I get only a few of these.
3) Or the newsletter is in digest form, and the ListServer removes all
graphical attachments before sending.
4) Or the sending email software has been poorly set up.
There may be more explanations, but I would guess that it is one of
the above.
Regards,
Ron
Ron Clarke
http://homepages.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html
http://tadpole.aus.as
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