FWIW, I seem to see this in cycles - for a period of time I was receiving several messages with rather colorful images imbedded. Thankfully - both for the content of the graphics and their size - the trend seems to have passed. I get a variety of graphics in messages lately, although they seem to be smaller - 10K is about the largest mail I've seen recently.
Some of the links are less for the graphic than they are for tracking messages that have been opened - the hit on the url indicates somebody looked at the mail. A funny story - a spammer had hijacked a graphic on a legit website for a get rich spam. The graphic was of coins - but was quickly replaced with an image reading "This Is Spam" in large red letters. It seemed to take the spammer several days to notice that the tables had been turned. Assuming we ever get laws - I must confess I'm not optimistic - I'd vote for both - charge a fine for each mail, with some sort of escalator clause that kicks in as the size of the message increases. Regards, Dale on 3/26/02 7:12 PM, ahimsa at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is it my imagination or has the size of spam greatly increased? > > Lately, instead of getting URLs to web sites, I'm getting HTML > files with references to GIF or JPEG files that are attached to the > message. The worst I got recently was 97K! How large does spam have > to be before the federal government passes effective anti-spam laws?! > > When such laws ARE passed, I think the penalties should be greater > for those who send these large spam messages. For example, instead > of suing to enforce a flat charge for each individual instance of > spam (Re: that recent lawsuit in the Oregonian) it should have been > a charge per kilobyte. > > Marjorie > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
