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Gareth · 12-07-2005, 13:09

Disabling embedded graphics in HTML emails is a good strategy, if it's available with your provider. Spammers have taken to using cleverly embedded URLs to embedded graphics that point to the .gif but also identify that your email address is valid when you access it, since the particular url used would only have been accessed if you've opened your email.

For this reason, I have graphics switched off by default. In GMail you can choose to temporarily enable embedded graphics, and for all my other accounts that use SquirrelMail I can switch between plain text & HTML versions of emails.

12-07-2005, 13:09	#11
Gareth cf.mega poster Join Date: Dec 2003 Age: 51 Posts: 7,101	Re: {spam?} {definately spam?} {disarmed} Disabling embedded graphics in HTML emails is a good strategy, if it's available with your provider. Spammers have taken to using cleverly embedded URLs to embedded graphics that point to the .gif but also identify that your email address is valid when you access it, since the particular url used would only have been accessed if you've opened your email. For this reason, I have graphics switched off by default. In GMail you can choose to temporarily enable embedded graphics, and for all my other accounts that use SquirrelMail I can switch between plain text & HTML versions of emails.