 RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | reply to MJL
Re: "Legit Spammer"? said by MJL :
There's no way technically to override a user's settings in the web browser or other user agent if the user says "don't display images" or "don't display images from 3rd party servers".
I think what they mean by images and scripts being guaranteed is that the mailbox provider won't filter the text of the message to remove them before they even hit the user's mailbox. That seems reasonable to me on the face of it.
Normally, if I have the "do not display" switch activated, I will get a place-holder image displayed in lieu of the actual image (which will not be "uselessly" fetched [since it is not going to be displayed] thus preventing the user from being monitored). What they MAY do for these messages is to fetch the image (or web-bug) and THEN check the "do not display" setting. This will delivery the place-holder image to the user while STILL allowing the "Legit" Spammer to use Web-Bugs and track the user's retrieval of the message. |
