Re: Getting rid of inlined images in HTML

[Rich Kulawiec]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 01:55:20PM -0400, Nick Simicich wrote:
> My personal feeling is that any e-mail client that automatically invokes 
> remote urls of any sort, including img tags from e-mail that I'm looking at 
> is essentially broken.  It allows someone to track who is reading their 
> mass (U?BE, that is unsolicited or not bulk) e-mail, and, if you send out 
> individual e-mails, it can even automatically feed back who is reading the 
> e-mail and when.

All *excellent* points and a compelling argument for not using an
HTML-cognizant mail client.  Another couple arguments to add to the
list: instrusion detection systems, and web content filtering monitors.
(Not that *I* approve of web content filtering: I don't.  But people
use it, and one way to cause trouble for person X at company Y is to
send them email that opens HTTP connections to blocked site Z when
they read it.  Sure, it can all be sorted out...but will it?)

---Rsk