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Re: [linuxiran] Any good email security mailing list?!!
From: |
Kaveh Mousavi |
Subject: |
Re: [linuxiran] Any good email security mailing list?!! |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Jan 2004 20:35:22 -0800 (PST) |
--- Aryan Ameri <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Saturday 17 January 2004 22:16, ocean wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Might seem a stupid question to ask here..
> > But some time ago when I was surfing download.com
> I
> > came across a software which claimed to be capable
> of
> > informing you when your email has been opened by
> the
> > recipient!! I've forgotten the name of the
> software
> > and I don't know exactly where I should post this
> > rather ODD question so...
> > Is it possible or it's just an illusion?
> >
> > Cheers
>
> Yes, Farid, Arash's response was more than perfect,
> but let me add my
> two cents:
>
> Hadn't I known you, I would have immediately thought
> you were a spammer.
> As Arash explained this is exactly how spammers
> check the validity of
> the address.
>
> Of course there is no guarantee that it will work,
> and indeed I think it
> won't work on any Linux email client. Since I think
> Linux develpers
> haven't still lost their sanity and actively show
> html code in email
> client and call it 'user friendlt'.
>
> Outlook Express and Outlook as well as these web
> email account providers
> like yahoo and hotmail are the only ones that I know
> that actively show
> the html code. Even if I underestand correctly,
> Microsoft is changing
> this behaviour, and the outlook express in Windows
> XP SP2 (comming this
> summer) defaults not to show html code. Which should
> have always been
> the default.
>
> I hope this nasty litlle trick (pointing the email
> reader to
> automatically activate a cgi script) will disappear
> soon, because I see
> that people are at last comming to the conclusion
> that html shouldn't
> have been placed in email readers from the start.
>
> Cheers
>
> PS: You asked for a mailing list for scurity related
> questions. Though
> there are plenty such lists, I don't think it's
> inappropriate to
> discuss such matters here. It's not really
> off-topic.
>
> Cheers
>
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>
>
> Aryan Ameri
HTML-enabled feature of emails is sometime so usefull.
Hope we can find some other ways to stop spam.
Disabling th efeature is not a very good way though,
regards,
KMZ
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