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Re: A big brother moment? email reminders of what you haven't done
Subject:Re: A big brother moment? email reminders of what you haven't done From:Jay Maechtlen <techwriter -at- covad -dot- net> To:TechWrl list <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:42:06 -0700
Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com wrote:
> There's a "spammer" trick sometimes used by legit companies. Putting a
> graphic in the email message and then logging an eddress every time
> there's a request to send the graphic file...which only happens when the
> message is opened.
>
> But I think you're right. That doesn't seem to apply here.
>
> -B
>
Ah, yes- another reason to keep 'remote images' disabled by default!
Then, unless you request for that message, your client never requests
that remote image to tell the sender that you read it.
Regards
Jay
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