"Does anybody else know if spammers actually try to do something like this in email?"
No, but they will now John.Which is just great isn't it. I mean typical, get on an e-mail list and someone gives the game away...
[cue extensive riff on theme of e-mail spamming]----- Original Message ----- From: "John Wager" <john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 12:43 AM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: web bugs
Eric wrote:Tiny images that monitor your browsing .... http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Marketing/web_bug.htmlI'm not so concerned about them on websites. I _AM_ concerned when they show up in email. If you have your email client set up to view HTML in the email (rather than plain text) a message can contain one of these embedded graphics. When the spam sender blankets the universe with 1,000,000 emails, it would be good for her to know which people actually look at these emails; she could then sell a "good" client list of people with weak spam filters, or morbidly curious, but those who actually opened the email. I think that this would show up as a numeric IP, but I suspect that the spammer could also dig other information out of the log file of hits to their server that actually serves the image. Does anybody else know if spammers actually try to do something like this in email?-- -------------------------------------------------"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence and ignorance." -------------------------------------------------John Wager john.wager1@xxxxxxxxxxx Lisle, IL, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
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