> I sent a greeting card from a small commercial Flash card-maker to a > number of people. The service automatically notified me when each card > arrived on the recipient's desktop. > How did it do this? Does that mean that when the email is opened, that > it somehow dispatches a notice back to the original sender? > If so, then surely spammers use this to certify when they have reached > a live sucker? > And if they can do that, surely it's possible to trace that subtle > little dispatched notice, which MUST go to a real address? > And thus find and cut off at the kneecaps the spammer?
Don, you are correct. I sent a greeting card once and I started receiving spam by the dozens. On TECHTV they had a spammer on and she said that if you open the e-mail that it would send back a response to the spammer. So, the moral of the story is: Don't use e-greeting card sites, and don't open spam. Just can it ASAP. -- Jim Dynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Electronic Prepress Albuquerque, New Mexico The land of Billy the Kid and the wild wild west. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
