> Chris Santerre wrote:
>>
>>I may be misunderstanding but here goes:
>>
>>Web based linked images will be caught by SURBL. (Bigevil for those still
>>insane enough to use it)
>>
>>However I -think- what this thread is about is embedded images sent with
>> the
>>email? In which case I can see a rule being made for that, as no legit
>>sender that I know would do that.
>>
>>
>>
>
> Ah... I thought it was the other way round... Because of the comment
>
> ++Can anyone think why somebody would legitimately send a message
> ++containing '<img="http' to me? Bear in mind that any companies doing
> business
> ++with me
>
> which indicates (To me anyway) that an image is going to be loaded via
> http (ie.. not embedded, but ona  web server somewhere). Which to me is
> a GREAT way to detect who gets & opens their email, if the URL is
> encoded with a unique key... I was under the impression that this was a
> known & not uncommon spammer trick...

You're right, I was talking about people embedding an externally hosted
image in an HTML e-mail, not embedding an attached image.

Geoff

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