At 3:52 PM -0500 4/17/02, Matthew Langford wrote: >my book, that's plenty good enough to say the email address _was_ valid, >to some extent. There was a receipt, though I don't who. This assumes, >of course, that this trick doesn't get abused by spammers, causing sites >to build robots to stuff such a database with bogus addresses.
It does get abused by spammers (and legit companies). That's why my email is configured not to fetch remote images. -- Kee Hinckley - Somewhere.Com, LLC http://consulting.somewhere.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.
