Hi folks, this happens if the links are not correct. I receive some newsletters on HTML base where everything works fine.
Regards Joerg On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:04:06 +0000, Ron Clarke wrote: > 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 > -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
