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RE: I was auto-outed by an IMG tag in HTML spam
This can also happen with embedded tags in news messages,
if you use Netscape to read news while 'autoload images'
is turned on.
It's an interesting form of entrapment.
Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anonymous [SMTP:[email protected]]
[Trei, Peter] [edited]
> They sent a message to my
> off-site address (along with those of other critics about whom
> they wanted to know more). It was an HTML message with an
> embedded IMG tag.
>
> When Netscape saw that IMG
> tag, it happily connected to marketing's "customer" tracking
> server, and downloaded the keyed graphic.
>
> My boss just let me see the log he got from the marketing VP,
> showing clearly that my workstation read the message.