Re: "Some Pictures Have Been Blocked.......

From: Jimmy (JimmyCliff_at_xemaps.com)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:25:49 -0500

Tim Slattery wrote:
> "Jimmy" <JimmyCliff@xemaps.com> wrote:
>
>> ...to help prevent the sender from identifying your computer." is at
>> the top of my emails from Comcast (and maybe other email?) and I am
>> curious how this works.
>
> It's called a "web beacon". There is a link in the email that you
> received that instructs your computer to link to an HTTP server and
> download a picture. That link can include *anything* the writer wants:
> the address to which the email was sent, or a database key with which
> the email address can be retrieved. So if your email program uses that
> link, it could easily be verifying to a spammer that "this email
> address WORKS!!!".

 Things keep getting trickier and trickier. Now I have to wonder if there is
a way to block messages that have this 'beacon' with a 'Rule'. This new
warning message that appears must have come in with an windows update? Is
this a feature that is available easily to anyone to use in an email?

J.