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Re: Mail with no purpose?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Thu Apr 1 11:20:46 2004

Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 09:29:20 -0800 (PST)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <406C3F7B.2070504@ehsco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Eric A. Hall wrote:

> On 4/1/2004 11:15 AM, william(at)elan.net wrote:
> 
> > Where as WYSIWYG html email client (no matter if its web-based or
> > outlook or mozilla) will reference and display all images contained in
> > email
> 
> You can turn it off in Mozilla and some MS clients. It's a pretty common
> feature nowadays.

Yeh, good. 
My point still stands though, your email client will either try to resolve
the url and try to get the image or it will not (in which case there would
be no dns request either).
 
-- 
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william@elan.net


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