Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 09:57:40AM -0600, DvB wrote: > > The biggest problem with spamcop, and reporting spam in general, IMO, > > is that you have to open the message in order to do so. Many spammers > > nowdays have little notification mechanisms embedded in the HTML of > > their messages which sends an ack to the spammer that your address is > > valid and you do indeed "read your spam." This, in turn, brings more > > spam to your address. > > Most mail clients out there have fixed this bug, or never had it to > begin with. If your mailer still parses HTML, you should either > switch to a different mailer or file a bug report with your vender, > this is a privacy issue.
Kind of hard when your ISP is Yahoo! and you're not willing to pay for their pop server :-) And, yes, I've written their support people and requested being able to view messages w/o HTML. This, of course, seems kind of silly when your mail client is a web browser. See also my comment (which you snipped) about how this is only a problem if you have this feature enabled in your mail client. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
