On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Ghodmode <ghodm...@ghodmode.com> wrote: > I hope it's clear that reading an email doesn't constitute visiting all of > the sites linked in the email and therefore doesn't improve Google page > ranks or provide any other tracking information. Also note that the > original email didn't have anything like a tracking pixel. Even the urls > were just text. They only became links if the readers' email client turned > them into links. My email wasn't dangerous or helpful to the spammer in any > way.
You're correct about emails per se, but list mail gets archived to web-accessible pages: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2011-August/1277607.html And yes, URLs become clickable. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list