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January 2002, Week 3

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Re: OT: Netscape 6.2.1 HTML e-mail filtering
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David T Darnell <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:02:17 -0700
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Lars came up with the best solution for avoiding HTML-based spam e-mail
which
uses inline images to generate web server hits to track which e-mails are
being
read.

Before reading any suspect e-mail whose validity cannot be determine by
From:
and Subject: alone, I just click the online/offline toggle icon in the
lower
right hand corner of the Netscape window.  The HTML will still be rendered,
but
none of the images will be retrieved since Netscape thinks I'm offline.

Once I've deleted the spam messages, I toggle myself back into online mode.
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