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Re: Mail with no purpose?
From: Richard Cox <richard () mandarin com>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:23:46 +0000 (GMT)
(Subject line changed to comply with Merit's AUP) On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 13:28:31 UTC Jerry Eyers <jeyers () sloancc net> wrote:
it sends a request to the sender's specified website to get the pixel thus showing them which email accounts are active.
Some times the request goes to the website, sometimes a DNS request to nameservers is sufficient to cause the account to be tagged as active. False tagging can occur if a mailserver or other scanner looks up the IP of URLs found in mail messages On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:03:35 UTC Randy Bush <randy () psg com> wrote:
except for those of us who don't use browsers to read mail and have html turned off in our mail readers.
After the last batch of worms that found their way here, it's a bit disappointing that Merit hasn't yet blocked HTML mail to this list. -- Richard Cox
Current thread:
- Spam with no purpose? Deepak Jain (Mar 31)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Richard Welty (Mar 31)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Adrian Chadd (Mar 31)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Christopher L. Morrow (Mar 31)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Jerry Eyers (Apr 01)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Randy Bush (Apr 01)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? bmanning (Apr 01)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Randy Bush (Apr 01)
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Apr 01)
- Re: Mail with no purpose? Richard Cox (Apr 01)
- Re: Mail with no purpose? william(at)elan.net (Apr 01)
- Re: Mail with no purpose? Eric A. Hall (Apr 01)
- Re: Mail with no purpose? william(at)elan.net (Apr 01)
- Re: Mail with no purpose? Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Apr 01)
- Re: Mail with no purpose? Richard Cox (Apr 01)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Spam with no purpose? Gregory Hicks (Mar 31)
- RE: Spam with no purpose? Michel Py (Mar 31)
- RE: Spam with no purpose? william(at)elan.net (Mar 31)
- RE: Spam with no purpose? Paul Jakma (Apr 02)