At 9:26 PM -0400 5/15/03, mathew wrote:
Graphics used to be included from referenced external servers, but
(a) that was too easy to filter and (b) the web sites got closed
down too quickly, making most of the sent spam retrospectively
useless. So now a lot of spammers send images embedded.
I suspect we'll see legitimate mailers sending more included graphics
soon as well. MSN and Hotmail are both providing (or about to)
provide filters to turn off automatic inclusion of external graphics.
And the next Outlook is supposedly shipping with the option off by
default. None of that bodes well for content-filters.
P.S. As for mailbox size. Mine is just short of 1GB--not including
attachments.
--
Kee Hinckley
http://www.messagefire.com/ Junk-Free Email Filtering
http://commons.somewhere.com/buzz/ Writings on Technology and Society
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
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