Re: HTML email "bug", of sorts.

["Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker () acm org>]

On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Alex Prestin wrote:

> So, anyone have any idea of how to deal with this latest little spammer
> toy?  Is there any effective way to filter out web bugs without adversely
> affecting the delivery intact of legitimate messages?  Could software
> change to at least warn viewers that this HTML viewer is accessing offsite
> content?  Is it worth doing?

At least Mozilla mail+news can be configured to alert the user before
downloading any image.  You have the option of loading the image, not
loading the image, and permanently placing a hostname on the image loading
shitlist.

Pine of course does not suffer from this particular bug.

Regards,
Jeffrey