> > From: Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/02/13 Tue PM 11:45:50 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT: Is This A Scam? > > Eric Featherstone wrote: > > On 13/02/07, K.Takeshita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I would suggest you do not even open or click anything. Even if you do not > >> say a thing back to them, opening their mail alone will confirm the > >> existence of your email address which might be freely distributed to other > >> spam mailers, let alone continuation of spam from the same guy. > >> Particularly those came in HTML are easy to be picked up by the other end > >> when you open it. > >> Even in plain text mail, they embed a graphic which also act as an > >> acknowledgement to senders. > > > > A good point, that. > > It may sound a little drastic, but I've actually turned *off* image > > display in my email clients to prevent such acknowledgements. > > > > Cheers, > > Eric. > > > > HTML & Rich Text email is evil anyways. There's no valid reason to send > email in any form other than plain text (with attachments of course, > those are actually useful).
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