Re: Automatic Picture Download

From: Bryan Anderson (usenet_at_anderson-it.com)
Date: 05/05/04 

Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 22:52:07 +0100

On Wednesday, Roady wrote:

> The picture blocking is indeed used to prevent tracking by
> means of downloading a picture with a certain call. If your
> friend links to a picture on a webserver this is most likely
> done without the special tracking call meaning it is save to
> download the picture. Hotmail doesn't track the image down-
> loads but links directly to the file.

All this I know....but I still want the option to reply to him
without having to download the image first - just for my own
piece of mind.

> Also note that Hotmail isn't the cause of SPAM (by leaking
> addresses as you stated) but is a victom of SPAM because in
> general people are not very carefull with that address and
> post it practically everywhere.

Untrue. I have experience of this first hand. I set up a new
Hotmail address this week. Within five minutes (and that is
not an exageration) I had my first piece of spam. I've not
even sent anything using this address, nor have I posted it
anywhere - it is used simply as a way for family to get in
tough with my via MSN Messenger (I use Trillian). So how did
I start getting spam? I can't beleive that there is someone
out there generating random <>@hotmai.com addresses so fast
that within minutes of me creating one, they'd hit it....

Maybe it was coincendence, maybe not. But there's till no way
to reply to my friends email without first downloading the
image. 

-- 
Bryan Anderson <www.anderson-it.com>

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