[ale] OT: anti-spam

[krum at smyrnacable.net (Kevin Krumwiede)]

On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 11:21, Tony Ucedavelez wrote:
> I'll echo that and add that spam should not be opened via your internet 
> mail accounts (i.e - all you yahooligans).  I've heard that it is possible 
> to denote whether a recipient has opened the email or spam mail in the 
> internet mail account.  By clicking on that piece of mail, you say "I'm 
> home".

This is possible with HTML email.  The spammer embeds your email address
in the URL of an image, and when your email client requests the image
from their server they know you've read the message.

If you use Evolution, you can protect yourself by telling it to never
load images in HTML email.




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