On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 06:17:25AM -0400, Alex Prestin wrote: > So, anyone have any idea of how to deal with this latest little spammer > toy? Is there any effective way to filter out web bugs without adversely > affecting the delivery intact of legitimate messages? Could software > change to at least warn viewers that this HTML viewer is accessing offsite > content? Is it worth doing? This is a client problem that needs to be supported there. For example, Kmail - the KDE Mailer - has a "download remote URLs" checkbox. Simply turning that off stops HTML mail messages from having things like <img> tags being activated. Under Outlook, this isn't possible. -- Cheers Jason Haar Unix/Special Projects, Trimble NZ Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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