[69257] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Spam with no purpose?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Thu Apr 1 10:20:24 2004
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:19:02 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Jerry Eyers <jeyers@sloancc.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <16492.12103.382903.861009@ran.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 07:03:35AM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > A message like this will usualy contain an html portion with an image in
> > it that is a single pixel in size, that is white-on-white. It doesn't
> > show up when you look at it, but it sends a request to the sender's
> > specified website to get the pixel, thus showing them which email accounts
> > are active.
>
> except for those of us who don't use browsers to read mail and have html
> turned off in our mail readers. i just love those "get a mail reader that
> can handle html" responses to my requests not to post html to nanog and
> other ops lists. html ain't quite as bad as javascript, but with today's
> html hackin' kiddies, it's a close contest.
>
> randy
for those who tire of the increasing complexity of email(*)
may I recommend /usr/ucb/mail - a (relatively) small, lightweight
MUA.
--bill
(*) plus attachments, video/audio clips, goofy fonts, textured/scented "stationary", et.al.
and/or POP/IMAP, procmail, spamassasin, black/white/grey-lists, DNS hacks, et.al.
