[69259] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mail with no purpose?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Cox)
Thu Apr 1 10:28:04 2004
From: Richard Cox <richard@mandarin.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: nanog@mandarin.com
In-Reply-To: <16492.12103.382903.861009@ran.psg.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 15:23:46 +0000 (GMT)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
(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
