In other words, spamers can use it to see that you have an active account and keep sending you more garbage, right? Tim Brown - MCIS Networking - Field Services E-mail: brownte@xxxxxxxxxx Pager e-mail: brownte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx WWW: http://www.users.muohio.edu/brownte -----Original Message----- From: oxfordgamers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oxfordgamers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of CWilson@xxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 8:20 AM To: oxfordgamers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [oxfordgamers] Re: Another Yahoo! Anti-privacy "feature" The 'click here' gives you the ability to opt-out of being tracked via Web Beacons. A web beacon is hidden inside html in a mail message. For example, if you receive an e-mail with html in it, some of that html can be specifically keyed such that when the image or text is retrieved from the sender's web site, it contains a identifier of you, the individual. This is a beacon to the sender that the mail account must be active. -- Chad Wilson Computer Support/Analyst McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital Ph: (513) 524-5583 E-Mail: cwilson@xxxxxxxx --