On Sun, 26 May 2002, Jason Rimmer wrote: > Why is that? It would appear to me that a web_bug is an excellent > indicator, and a nasty one at that, of spam.
A web bug is an indicator of a commercial site that is trying to track your activity. However, not all commercial email is unsolicited, and web bugs are increasingly in use by legitimate [*] commercial sites. Also, the web bug criteria is a bit loose -- any image URI with query parameters is a match, not just those with some kind of ID tag as implied by the description. Apparently a number of messages with matching URIs have made their way into the non-spam corpus. [*] Read as "otherwise legitimate", if you're of the opinion that any sort of tracking is unethical. _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
