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Story: Spammers 'using bugs' to find active email addresses
Posted by: mlord (Wednesday 14 April 2004, 8:16 PM)
it is as simple as having an image embedded in the email. The image source is requested back to a server that tracks these request, which contain some unique identifier. This is as old as html email itslef. Disable preview of mail or use a simple text only email client
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Story: Spammers 'using bugs' to find active email addresses
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I am wondering how a person can tell if they have... N Shelton -
You would need a product which deactivates the htm... Michael Brass
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it is as simple as having an image embedded in the... mlord -
AOL 9.0 deactivates images and HTML in emails from... Anonymous
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Xuppa.com is a free web-based email host. By defa... Anonymous
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