[extropy-chat] Webpanto

[Brent Neal]

 (1/22/04 17:49) MB <mbb386 at main.nc.us> wrote:

>
>Would you please discuss that with respect to only reading email in
>plain text?
>
>Regards,
>MB
>


Sure. If you use a text only mail reader, such as Mutt, Pine, Elm, Mailsmith, etc., then webbugs don't work. However, spammers are aware that 90+% of computer users use mail clients that render HTML, and thus they use webbugs in order to verify that the addresses they are sending to are valid.


B

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