Morten Nilsen wrote:
> Myself wrote: > >> >> Michael H. Warfield wrote: >> >>> >>> Okkk... An there there are web bugs. The little goodies that >>> pull a special identifying image from their web site identifying your >>> E-Mail address as a good one and worth putting on their platinum "we've >>> qualified this address as good" list that they sell to other spammers. >>> Reading spam in an HTML enabled reader is an incredibly good way to >>> increase your spam traffic. The more you get the more you are >>> qualified. >>> > > I've pretty much resolved that tracking technique locally... > I run a transparent proxy (squid) with phroggy's bannerfilter installed > (www.phroggy.com) > Now, most of the images is replaced with "BLOCKED" :) > >> >> Ok, I'll bite. You said plenty - you listed one - webbugs. >> You can go offline before reading a message. >> > > Like the other two boys said, no thank you. > and besides, what if your mail account is an IMAP server? > how are you going to access your email while offline then exactly? > >> Have you considered a typewriter, some paper and some white-out? >> I've never understood this e-mail must only be plain text thing... > > > Do you realize how many people out there doesn't have a html-enabled > mailreader? > like mutt, pine, mail or even telnet? Yes. An overwhelming minority. > > And besides, more often than not, html mail contains ugly fonts/colors > and is spam. Oh well then it must be true. What a terrific argument. Is there anyone that can state the case?
