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Re: Mail with no purpose?

  • From: Richard Cox
  • Date: Thu Apr 01 10:30:07 2004

(Subject line changed to comply with Merit's AUP)

On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 13:28:31 UTC Jerry Eyers <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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