>> There also seems to be the new trend of sending crap emails that >> have no content and random words.. I think those are just sent >> to verify email addresses, but then there's no product or service >> being sold. > >sometimes this is just in the text/plain part - the ad is in the >text/html part.
And many times there are URLs with tagged GIF-names or tagged hostnames embedded in them that help them instrument how well their efforts are succeeding, like these: http://some.spammers.site/yourSpecialIDcookie.gif http://yourSpecialIDcookie.spammers.site/whatever ..and I've always thought what a tragedy it would be if your browser had a bug in it that caused it to go into an infinite loop that caused it to instead keep re-fetching those items with accidentally corrupted URLs like these: http://some.spammers.site/aDifferentRandomStringEachTime.gif http://aDifferentRandomStringEachTime.spammers.site/whatever So make sure your browser has no such bugs - poor quality software is a scourge on us all. _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
