[P1] Mail w/o images?

[Joost van de Griek]

On 2003-05-07 22:30, Jack Rodgers wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 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.

True, but that is assuming that one does disconnect at some point, For an
ever-increasing number of broadband users, that is not necessarily so.

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