Re: e-mail clients are saying "I am here" to spammers

From: Alaa Abdelhalim [MSFT] (alaa_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/09/03 

Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 11:57:25 -0700

The feature you requested is part of Outlook 2003. By default, html-linked
resources are not followed anymore unless the user opts to download them for
a specific message or changes the global option to always download them.
Check out the BETA if you're interested.

I believe this is being/going to be done in the latest versions of other
products/services as well. 

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"Cagdas Ozgenc" <co19@XinvalidX.cornell.edu> wrote in message
news:behfcn$cij$1@news01.cit.cornell.edu...
> Microsoft e-mail readers seem to give opportunity to spammers to detect
that
> the e-mail recipient, which is you, actually exists and know that you
> recieve and view the e-mail they are sending to you.
>
> Although some HTML content in e-mail is not viewed for security reasons,
> images are fetched from their associated web servers when the e-mail is
> previewed/viewed. This gives spammers an opportunity to detect that the
> e-mail has been delivered and at least previewed.
>
> Procedure is easy. Simply place an image with a known ID within the e-mail
> you are sending and tell your web server to keep track of requested images
> and record those IDs. This way one can track whether an e-mail has been
> delivered or not.
>
> I would like to discuss this issue further with others. If possible e-mail
> clients may be modified to view only embedded resources and leave out all
> linked resources.
>
> Regards,
>
> Cagdas Ozgenc
>
>
>
>

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