(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