[How rude and annoying. From now on, I'm only going to use /usr/bin/Mail or maybe tail -100 from the mail spool... --Declan] --- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 15:03:11 +0200 To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private> From: [deleted --DBM] Subject: Neulevel's PostMinder tracks e-mails without recipient approval [If you use this, please omit my name! Thx.] Neulevel's PostMinder tool (http://www.postminder.biz) sends out confirmations to the sender that the recipient has read an e-mail even when the recipient has disabled Return Receipts. If your mail reader displays HTML, it will send a message back to Neulevel to indicate that your message has been read. In addition, it displays a message "The sender of this message requests confirmation when you read it. Click here to confirm." No need to click -- it has already been confirmed. If you dislike this, you can set your mail reader to Text-only/no HTML allowed. Eudora users can disable "Use Microsoft's viewer" (Tools/Options/Viewing Mails). PostMinder uses similar technology to track MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other documents supporting OLE. They claim that it will "allow you to find out if they were forwarded to others or viewed by a third party", e.g. if someone leaked a document to a journalist. This is how PostMinder-modified mails look like -- NNNNNNNNNNN is a tracking number, > and < replaced by ] and [ [x-html] [HTML][DIV][/DIV][DIV]This is the text of the tracked email [/DIV][DIV][br][br][br][center][a href="http://www.NNNNNNNNNNN.PostMinder.biz/confirm.asp?NNNNNNNNNNN"][IMG SRC="http://www.NNNNNNNNNNN.PostMinder.biz/nocache.pl/NNNNNNNNNNN/footer20.gif" border=0 height=40 width=400 alt=""][/A] [iframe width=1 height=1 src="http://www.NNNNNNNNNNN.PostMinder.biz/iframe.asp?NNNNNNNNNNN=2" frameborder=0 STYLE="width: 0; height: 0px; border:0px"][/iframe][table height=1 width=1 border=0][tr][td background="gopher://gopher.NNNNNNNNNNN.PostMinder.biz/gb.NNNNNNNNNNN.gif"][/td][/tr][/table][/center] [/HTML] [/x-html] --- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 15:10:25 +0200 To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private> From: [deleted --DBM] Subject: Fwd: Neulevel's PostMinder tracks e-mails without recipient approval [If you use this, please omit my name! Thx.] BTW, the tracking report send to the sender using PostMinder includes date, time, user machine (IP-based), reader language and email reader/browser. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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