Re: Spam with no purpose?

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 07:03:35AM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> > A message like this will usualy contain an html portion with an image in
> > it that is a single pixel in size, that is white-on-white.  It doesn't
> > show up when you look at it, but it sends a request to the sender's
> > specified website to get the pixel, thus showing them which email accounts
> > are active.
>
> except for those of us who don't use browsers to read mail and have html
> turned off in our mail readers.  i just love those "get a mail reader that
> can handle html" responses to my requests not to post html to nanog and
> other ops lists.  html ain't quite as bad as javascript, but with today's
> html hackin' kiddies, it's a close contest.
>
> randy


        for those who tire of the increasing complexity of email(*)
        may I recommend  /usr/ucb/mail - a (relatively) small, lightweight
        MUA.  

--bill
        
(*) plus attachments, video/audio clips, goofy fonts, textured/scented "stationary", et.al.
    and/or  POP/IMAP, procmail, spamassasin, black/white/grey-lists, DNS hacks, et.al.