On Wed, 28 May 2003 03:26:44 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > How can they find out your email address just by your going > to their advertised web site and the only thing you do there > is to just take a looksee?
I don't think they can find out your email address if you just go to their site. But if you open an HTML attachment to an email, there could be a lot of invisibles in that HTML that could do all sorts of things without you knowing about it. If I ever get another one of those spammails with an HTML attachment, I'll open it offline and then <F4> it to see what is written there. > The only way I can figure how they could do that is if they > named a different web site for each article of spam sent and > the named web site corresponds to the spam article sent to > your email address only. Do spammers do things like that? Why not? All you need is another file, say a few kbytes for each recipient, so one line in the HTML would direct you to http://spamhost.com/youremail.html where a hit would be recorded. > It would seem to me that there isn't enough money in the > spamming business for spammers to consider it worthwhile to > go to so much extra effort and expense. Could there be some information in the cookies that get exchanged? I've never worked out the purpose of cookies, unless it is to find out more about you or your system. -- Arachne V1.71;UE01, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
