At 01:19 AM 4/13/03 -0500, Chuck Renner wrote:
> > Someone on the list advised that one should not open spam messages
> while connected to the 'net because they send a message back confirming
> the validity of your address - then adding you to a spam list. ....
>
>.... In the process of downloading the HTML message content, it has
>retrieved an invisible graphic called a web bug. There are any number of
>ways that these can be used.
>....
So you just switch off the HTML function of your e-mail client, in which
case it only displays the plain text part of the message (if there is
any). Then sometimes you get what appears to be a blank or empty message,
but you can do "View-Source" like you can with a web page, and you can see
the HTML code imbedded in the message. With the HTML function switched
off, your mail client will not process any of the HTML tags, and will not
download any images, will not send back any response data. I have no use
for any HTML content in an e-mail message. Why would you want to accept
that crap?
$.02,
Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude
http://MGAguru.com
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