[PLUG] Email greeting cards

Don Buchholz buchholz at easystreet.com
Tue Dec 30 10:41:01 UTC 2003


Wil Cooley wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 09:24, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
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>>This is why it is dumb to have html viewing enabled for
>>email readers, because that means that when you open such an email,
>>the email program automatically accesses the spammer site to get
>>at the pictures,  and the specific picture address used provides
>>the confirmation that the spam email arrived and got looked at.
>>That counts as an "opt in", and means you will get a lot of spam
>>from these people.
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>
>Some sensible MUAs (Evolution, Mozilla) will not load remote images from
>HTML pages automatically.  Evolution has this feature by default;
>Mozilla has to enable it (I don't have the Mail portion installed or I'd
>tell you exactly where).
>
>Wil
>
for Mozilla 1.4:

  Edit -> Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Images
    [x] Do not load remote images in Mail & Newsgroup messages





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