"A. Melon" wrote:
> The technology in question is seemingly innocuous: the ability of the latest e-mail
>programs to send and display images. E-mail senders use the feature, based on the
>Web's computer language, to create colorful messages known as HTML mail.
>
> But many also use it to embed tiny images that are invisible to the recipients.
>Marketers call them pixel tags and say they are used to gauge the success of e-mail
>campaigns. Privacy advocates prefer a more ominous name � Web bugs.
>
one more reason that HTML in e-mails should die.
