[P1] Mail w/o images?

[Jack Rodgers]

On Wednesday, May 7, 2003, at 01:07  PM, Joe Jones wrote:

> I leave it this way by default - if a spam email gets by the filter 
> and loads it makes a request to a remote server to load the image and 
> thus the spammer knows your address is valid and marks you up for 20x 
> more spam.
>
> Nasty stuff.
>
> I set up a filter that transfers all html mail directly to the junk 
> folder no matter who it's from. I check there every so often to see if 
> there are any messages from non-spam sources. 99% of the time, it's 
> all spam.

It's my theorey that if you wait until you disconnect and then open any 
of the suspicious email, nothing gets sent to anyone and you can view 
the spam without making your presence known.

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