The article isn't all that bad. img src=myscript.asp?optionaldata=like&whois=this.sent.to
myscript.asp is back-end code (parse optional data) redirect to 1 pixel gif or regular image. Good way to track those fremail website users; do they read the popups as well as the adds? Is someone who visited a site a junkmail reader? If you use something like opera or lynx it'll show you how many domains compose a total website, mostly to get around the privacy alerts that default with ie nowadays. How else to make sure that the email is valid? its easy as pie. i could implant a db counter within this email and show ya'll a page that counts how many people have html turned on and their ip addresses and even what time they read it, and show how many people who read the email showed up at the page. But since its a blind list there's no point to. of course I'd likely be horsewhipped and publicly flogged as well, people understand and respect privacy here. -keith ----- Original Message ----- From: "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 10:57 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Is your e-mail watching you? > > >I'm sorry, but I didn't make it past the first line. I was laughing too > >hard. What kind of ignorance does it take to call cookies "bits of code"? > > When I read the article, I thought it was very poorly written. > > First, cookies are traditionally sent with HTTP headers, which are never > present in E-mail. So, unless there is a magic way to place cookies in > E-mail aside from using scripts, any E-mail client that has scripting > turned off (which it DEFINITELY should do) will not be able to receive > cookies. I haven't heard of a single case of a spammer using cookies in > E-mail. > > Then, then talk about how web sites "now" typically "cloak visitor's > identities". That's a bunch of made-up technobabble. Virtually every web > site keeps logs of the IP address of its visitors, and no other "identity" > is normally sent to web sites. > > And what about the horoscope site that knows a consumer only by his birth > date? What web site does THAT? "Required information: Username, > password, birthdate"? > > Only about 1/2 way through the article do they mention the real issue; > those 1 pixel by 1 pixel .GIF files that are used to track who has read an > E-mail. > > >Oh my! I read further and got another good belly-laugh: "the programming > >language most commonly used to display Web pages, known as HTML (Hypertext > >Markup Language)." > > Isn't Windows written in HTML? > > -Scott > --- > Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for > IMail. http://www.declude.com > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
