[TriLUG] spam through images (image with text)

Rob Lockhart rlockhar at trilug.org
Wed Oct 6 23:25:49 EDT 2004


Tanner Lovelace wrote:

>  On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 22:53:22 -0400, Rob Lockhart
>  <rlockhar at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> > I agree, Jon. I noticed that Mozilla (full) and Thunderbird have
> > a feature which only allows images from the mail host to be
> > viewed (thus blocking the "new" form of email address validation
> > for spamming purposes). I definitely enable that. Not too sure
> > how this could be easily done on other clients, though.
>
>
>  New?!? e-mail address validation? It's not new at all. I've seen
>  spammers doing that for several years now.
>
>  Tanner

You're right; I didn't really mean "new" in the sense of "new like
"new car" or "new job" or such.  New is such a imprecise, relative
word.  'We (humans) are extremely "new" in this universe'.  :-)





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