Re: "Some Pictures Have Been Blocked.......
From: Malke (malke_at_nospoonnotreally.com)
Date: 03/01/05
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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:42:04 -0800
Jimmy 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. If I view pictures or choose not to view
> pictures that others send me in email I can control the senders
> ability to identify my computer? I just don't understand this one. How
> can I send someone an email and get to ID
> their computer if they open the photo I send? What kind of IDing? IS
> this whole thing just a Comcast dream or is this real.
>
> J.
Even though this refers to Outlook Express changes after SP2, it is
probably applicable to your question. Here is information from
Microsoft, http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/ieoeoverview.mspx
"Outlook Express now has picture handling facilities similar to Outlook
2003. This prevents senders of spam e-mail from determining whether a
recipient opens a message. It does this by preventing the automatic
display of pictures from Internet servers. The user is presented with
placeholders and the Information Bar gives the user the option to
display the picture.
"[Pictures and images embedded in HTML e-mail messages can be adapted to
secretly send a message back to the sender. These are often referred to
as Web beacons. Spammers rely on information returned by these images
to confirm active e-mail addresses. Some spam messages contain Web
beacon images so small that they are invisible to the human eye-but not
to Outlook Express.
"An improved defense against Web beacons is to stop pictures from
downloading until you've had a chance to review the message. Outlook
Express in Windows XP SP2 will now block images automatically in
messages from people who are not in your address book. This goes a long
way in preventing the verification of your e-mail address for spammers.
It makes your e-mail name less useful to spammers and may result in
your getting less spam over time.
"This feature also minimizes a common annoyance for those using dial-up
network connections. In earlier versions of Outlook Express, if you
read an HTML e-mail message with a picture embedded in it, Outlook
Express would automatically try to connect to the Internet to retrieve
any reference images. With image blocking in Outlook Express, this will
no longer happen."
Malke
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