From: BlueChip <cs_bluechip_at_webtribe.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:33:45 +0100

>>HTML tracking "codes" in Spam rely on poorly configured systems. Why
>>would you ever allow your e-mail client to make HTTP requests to
>>untrusted web servers based on receipt of e-mail from untrusted
>>senders?
>
>Because that's how most popular email clients are configured. That's one
>of the evil things about HTML-aware email clients.

If you, like me, run Windoze, the you will have access to "Tiny Personal
Firewall VERSION TWO" - with this personal firewall you can configure it
such that Eudora/Oulook/whatever will only talk to ports 25 & 110, in fact,
I've even screwed mine down to IP addresses too - stops all that spam
registering malarky :) ...just a tip :)

Mary Whitehouse was a famous British politician who could work out how to
switch off her TV, so instead she complained about the programs that she
chose to watch! There are some truly strange people out there...
Received on 2003-10-21