On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:16:46 +0100 (CET) Vadim Zeitlin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:11:49 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time) Alan G Isaac
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> AGI> ii. Can someone point me to good info on the issues?
> Not me but basicly the problem is that when you open an HTML message in
> the HTML viewer and if the loading of the external images is on, the
> sender
> of the message may know that you did it (by embedding an image with a
> unique URL in the message, for example) which could be undesirable.
the most obvious consequence of this is that a spammer could determine if
email addresses are "live" or not by seeing if the images with unique URLs
are subsequently referenced.
richard
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