Ok, As I was reviewing a spam domain to submit, I ran across a somewhat disgusting policy I felt the need to share with everyone here.
Here is a snipplet:
" Additionally, when you open, preview or click on the advertising portion of our e-mails and/or those of our marketing partners and/or affiliates of GroovyUSA, you have agreed to the terms set forth in our Privacy Policy and agree that as a function of opening, previewing or clicking on the advertising portion of our e-mails, that you will receive new or additional marketing communications from us, our marketing partners and/or affiliates of GroovyUSA. " Right before this, they talk about using clear 1 pixel gifs to track what you view, so they are saying, if you view this message, we will send you more and you accept for us to do whatever we want with your information. http://www.groovyusa-MUNGED.net/ Click on the privacy button at the top of the page.
On Tuesday, October 5, 2004, 6:45:23 AM, Fred Fred wrote:
Ok, As I was reviewing a spam domain to submit, I ran across a somewhat disgusting policy I felt the need to share with everyone here.
Here is a snipplet:
" Additionally, when you open, preview or click on the advertising portion of our e-mails and/or those of our marketing partners and/or affiliates of GroovyUSA, you have agreed to the terms set forth in our Privacy Policy and agree that as a function of opening, previewing or clicking on the advertising portion of our e-mails, that you will receive new or additional marketing communications from us, our marketing partners and/or affiliates of GroovyUSA. " Right before this, they talk about using clear 1 pixel gifs to track what you view, so they are saying, if you view this message, we will send you more and you accept for us to do whatever we want with your information. http://www.groovyusa-MUNGED.net/ Click on the privacy button at the top of the page.
Which is one reason why good mail clients like The Bat! don't get or display images in messages. In an age of spammer list washing, it seems highly unwise to allow a message to trigger an external network call. Grabbing that invisible gif confirms the successful delivery and reading of the message....
Jeff C. -- "If it appears in hams, then don't list it."
OE6 on XPsp2 is smart like this now too, by default blocks all external content.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Chan" jeffc@surbl.org To: discuss@lists.surbl.org Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:15 AM Subject: Re: [SURBL-Discuss] Read this policy please
Which is one reason why good mail clients like The Bat! don't get or display images in messages. In an age of spammer list washing, it seems highly unwise to allow a message to trigger an external network call. Grabbing that invisible gif confirms the successful delivery and reading of the message....
Jeff C.
"If it appears in hams, then don't list it."
(sorry if you received this a second time. I couldn't tell whether it worked the first time I sent this)
OE6 on XPsp2 is smart like this now too, by default blocks all external content.
BTW, does anyone here know of a plug-in (or something) to get Outlook XP (office version, not "outlook express") to do this external image blocking too?
I know that image blocking can be done in Outlook 2003, but I don't want to upgrade until the next version of MS Office.
Rob McEwen
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