-----It appears that [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, on 20030629 9:43 AM: > Why rely on manual >responses when you can put a 1 pixel gif in your html code, with the user >email address encoded into it's address, and when it is "hit", you know >the address that hit it, and collect it into your address book?
Mark, Could you explain this a little more please? I have a notion of what you're saying, but would like to be able to completely grok it. My guess: when the spammer's software makes up an email, it puts in the code a 1-pixel GIF file (which is stored on its server) that has a name containing coded eddress of that recipient -- and the code for the eddress is likely a parameter at the end of a "normal" URL, like "...?id=spamtargeteddress" . . . So, when the recipient opens the email (in an HTML-enabled email client, and while connected to the 'net), the page draws, and, in fetching the "invisible" GIF from the web, tips off the server's database that that recipient indeed exists. . . . (Gosh! If they coordinated this info with log-type info, they could also find out what IP the recipient is suring from and a bit of their 'puter info, couldn't they?) Is that pretty close? thanks, (curious) dan + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Dan Feather [EMAIL PROTECTED] 615-385-2812 AppleScript solutions for Macintosh applications Website and product development and testing Desktop publishing and prepress services + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
