[69265] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mail with no purpose?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland )
Thu Apr 1 11:24:42 2004
To: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
Cc: Richard Cox <richard@mandarin.com>, nanog@nanog.org,
brunner@nic-naa.net
In-Reply-To: Message from "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
of "Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:15:10 PST." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404010849430.21167-100000@sokol.elan.net>
Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 11:25:15 -0500
From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
To pick on one bulk political mailer, Kintera.Org, mail from
info@kucinich.us
contains a tracking gif, a 1x1, within the html portion of a multipart MIME
payload. Voila:
<img height=3D'1' width=3D'1' src=3D'http://www.kintera.org/omt/70069677.gif'>
Yes I've kevetched to the Kucinich campaign that putting tracking gifs in
political marketing is dumb, but to no avail. Of course the html contains
more URLs than just the one into Kintera's mail delivery and click-through
tracking playpen.
Wrong community I know (ASRG is over there) but something like DCC that
catches the "twinkle" of a spam's URL payload by nsen niggles me.
Eric
