On Thursday 16 Dec 2004 22:35 pm, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Thu, 16 Dec 2004, by gaf@blu.org: <snip> Bad idea. Spammers embed 1-pixel images to track who's reading their shite. (Pre)view one of these and you immediatly tell 'm your adres is valid and active.
This is easily prevented by telling kmail not to load external sources - it's in the security section. <more snippage> I am probably wrong , but doesn't that defeat his purpose? Which, if I understood correctly, was to actually look at these pictures which Kmail renders as separate pictures,rather than allowing indiscriminate html loose on his box. In this case I suspect it's the lesser of two evils he's deciding. For just the one item should he look at the external image, or the
On Thursday 16 December 2004 5:42 pm, Dylan wrote: html ( not usually a good choice, since you can never be certain your friends windows box wasn't haxsored and your email addy is now in the haxsor's Address book.. -- j nemo me impune lacessit quis custodiet ipsos custodiates?'