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On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 23:07:26 -0600, Rob Stow wrote:
George Macdonald wrote: Given the takeover of e-mail by M$ "standards, I find that just a little smug. I remarked in another post about their latest thrust here with Winmail.dat. The Internet in general is being corrupted, taken over by crooks (using mainly M$ tools) as we "speak" and damned little seems to be being done to stem the rot. Someone here talked of TCP/MS recently and it's a vividly descriptive term for where we're heading. When you consider the number of times their "experts" have been laughed out of IETF committee meetings it's kinda sad. If an e-mail message does not fully contain within itself every thing I need in order to get the information the sender wanted me to get, then the sender is either incompetent or a spammer. I don't much care if I miss out on things that idiots or spammers send me. Well I have friends who are computer illiterate, or near it and I just have to live with that. Rgds, George Macdonald "Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me?? |
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On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 22:38:14 GMT,
(George Macdonald) wrote: On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 22:49:02 GMT, Tony Hill wrote: In Mozilla there is a setting of "Do Not Load Remote Images in Mail and Newsgroup Messages" (in the Privacy - Images section) which will prevent the use of tracking images. Yeah I turn it on and off as I need - kinda like the pop-up thing which has to be on for some services now... like bank sites. Annoying when I forget to turn them back off again.:-) Hehe, I've run into the same thing, though fortunately not often! My advice, just add any frequently used ones to your list of domains that are allowed to use pop-ups. Any real legitimate messages send with a link to a remote image will get messed up a bit too, but those are pretty rare in my experience. Remote images are pretty much exclusively a spammer thing. I'm seeing more of the remote images in non-spam, e.g. in some of the services, like photo posting sites. I haven't encountered that yet, the photo-posting sites I've seen just give me a link to the photo-host. Of course, I don't get those very often, most of the time if I get a message it's actually sent along with the e-mail. ------------- Tony Hill hilla underscore 20 at yahoo dot ca |
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