Thanks, Mary; like a dog, I hang on the only part I can "byte into" (forgive, plz):
On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 01:29 AM, Mary wrote:
...Some spam does make use of web bugs, so that if the spam email is opened while the recipient is online, a signal will be sent to a website.
If the message contains webbugs _and_ the message is opened or previewed such that the HTML is retrieved, the spammer's server logs will contain entries that can be used to verify that the address is valid and that the mail was opened.
_________________________________________________________..."Web bug, also known as a Web beacon, is a file object (usually a graphic image such as a transparent GIF ) that is placed on a Web page or in an e-mail message to monitor user behavior, functioning as a kind of spyware."...
If "the spammer's server logs will contain entries that can be used to verify that the address is valid and that the mail was opened"--they can be traced, right? To the spammer's server logs. So does the spammer--lurking behind hidden spaces--have a way to access those logs in the server that cannot be traced?
Unless I'm totally misreading what you wrote: this seems to say that once I open a piece of spam, it somehow through spyware, makes an entry in the server's logs--the server being a totally innocent Windoze machine that has been conned into doing evil--and then the spammer accesses those logs, gets the data, and steals off into the cybernight with new information with which to further destroy civilization.
So some agency could put "taps" on that server that would identify the spammer's little agent that comes creeping in to read the logs, chase him to his real lair and, er, break his kneecaps...symbolically speaking, of course?
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