Re: Blocking web bugs

[Joseph N.]

On Sat, 08 Jun 2002 17:50:53 GMT, Jay Garcia wrote in 
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>> HTML-Email *can* access port 80, if it embeds images on an http server 
>> (<img src="http://sender/pic.gif";>), uses iframes, JS or whatever other 
>> means. Bug 28327.
>> 
> 
> Yes, that's what I meant when I said "rarely" accesses port 80.

Well, I've been away from this thread for a day, and I'm glad that some 
people understood my point, which is that code in an HTML-formatted email 
message can phone home to a remote port 80 or, presumably, any other port 
it is programmed to reach.

(And btw, you did not say "rarely."  What you said was, "Ok, you still do 
not understand. Email does NOT access port 80, only port 110 (pop3).")

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JN