[P1] anti-spam note

[Don Hinkle]

and that means the spammer must send some agent into the server to 
collect all those "live" addresses, and all an anti-spammer has to do 
is track that agent bearing the loot...correct?
-don

On Thursday, January 1, 2004, at 08:59  AM, Jack Rodgers wrote:

>> How did it do this? Does that mean that when the email is opened, 
>> that it somehow dispatches a notice back to the original sender?
>
> The first try may have been the web bug, a small one pixel invisible 
> image that must be called from a server like any photo or graphic. 
> When it is, it leaves behind the address of where it is going.
>
>
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