Actually , you can be tracked by html. 
It goes something like this :
Your email address and a unique user id are put into a database when the mail is sent; 
mail which
contains a unique tagged object using the userid (<userid>.jpg, for example). 
A request for this object puts an entry in their access and/or error logs. Then one
cross-references the log and the database. 
The tagged object may or may not exist on their server. All that is needed is the 
request and you
are in the crosshairs.


> || 3> SECURITY !!! (javascript issues, plus spammer can use html tags to tag
> || back to their website and thereby 'verify' your address if you open it
> || before you delete it).
--- Alan Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> For Javascript.  HTML emails do not mean Javascript.  In any decent email client 
>(Outlook
> included) you can turn all this off ... its just that M$ takes the approach that 
>everything
> should be open to begin with and leave it to the user to close off.  Which i suspect 
>if it was
> the otherway round, we wouldn't have had half the problems
> 
> 
> 
> So ... you still haven't given me a good reason for saying HTML Emails suck.
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