[22321] in bugtraq
Re: HTML email "bug", of sorts.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey W. Baker)
Sun Aug 19 23:44:53 2001
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 20:30:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>
To: Alex Prestin <wakko@bitey.net>
Cc: <bugtraq@securityfocus.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108180605310.15817-100000@wakko.bitey.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108182027590.1946-100000@desktop>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Alex Prestin wrote:
> So, anyone have any idea of how to deal with this latest little spammer
> toy? Is there any effective way to filter out web bugs without adversely
> affecting the delivery intact of legitimate messages? Could software
> change to at least warn viewers that this HTML viewer is accessing offsite
> content? Is it worth doing?
At least Mozilla mail+news can be configured to alert the user before
downloading any image. You have the option of loading the image, not
loading the image, and permanently placing a hostname on the image loading
shitlist.
Pine of course does not suffer from this particular bug.
Regards,
Jeffrey
