Ivan Van Laningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Of course I wouldn't base decisions _only_ on whether or not [PYTHON] > appears in the subject. But I ordinarily do base decisions on the whole > subject line, and I think that's perfectly reasonable. There's nothing > else to go on without opening the message, and for HTML-based mail > there's no surer way to let spammers know they've found a live email > addres than to open it. You know that.
No, I don't. My mail reader has a separate "decode" step. I can open HTML email, and see the HTML. Actually, I usually see the ascii version of the HTML followed by the HTML. If I want to see the HTML, I have to tell the reader to "decode" the mail. Then it renders the HTML. Further, I have the HTML renderer set to *not* fetch inline objects unless/until I click on them. So even rendering the HTML won't tell spammers anything. In short - your mail reader needs an upgrade. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
