Re[2]: OT : HTML privacy risk ??

1999-12-08 Thread Andrew Brown
AM The official release of TB version 1.38 is available at: AM ftp://ftp.ritlabs.com/pub/the_bat/the_bat.exe SOmething cute I just discovered: double click on that link and it fires up my FTP client and goes to get the file. I knew this worked with http urls. It's very clever to do it with

OT : HTML privacy risk ??

1999-12-07 Thread Rob
hi, i never like HTML in e-mail to start with, but now i'll just disable it ... just read that the spammers found a new trick ; when you view a message in HTML they retrieve an 'invisible' picture from a site and put your e-mail address in a cookie ...

Re: OT : HTML privacy risk ??

1999-12-07 Thread Ali Martin
Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i never like HTML in e-mail to start with, but now i'll just disable it ... just read that the spammers found a new trick ; when you view a message in HTML they retrieve an 'invisible' picture from a site and put your e-mail address in a cookie ...

Re: OT : HTML privacy risk ??

1999-12-07 Thread Rob
Hello all, on Tuesday, December 07, 1999 at 10:28:01 AM, Ali wrote : TB! will only view HTML and nothing more. The reason why TB! will not view imbedded images in HTML pages sent, but it does !! someone sent me an e-mail with a background and pictures and TheBat shows it all ... as long as

Re: OT : HTML privacy risk ??

1999-12-07 Thread Ali Martin
Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] TB! will only view HTML and nothing more. The reason why TB! will not view imbedded images in HTML pages sent, but it does !! someone sent me an e-mail with a background and pictures and TheBat shows it all ... as long as the stuff is attached to the

Re: OT : HTML privacy risk ??

1999-12-07 Thread Alexander V. Kiselev
Hi there! On 7 Dec 99, at 23:53, Rob wrote about "Re: OT : HTML privacy risk ??": TB! will only view HTML and nothing more. The reason why TB! will not view imbedded images in HTML pages sent, but it does !! someone sent me an e-mail with a background and pictures and Th