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Loren Wilton writes: > > I don't see the advantage of this. How does a *message header* help in > > tracking? Or does it correspond with a web bug? > > List washing. When they actually get a complaint about spam, they can > remove the address from the list, even if the report is something like > Spamcop that attempts to remove any identification of the complaint sender. this used to be quite common (haven't looked at much spam in detail recently ;) Also seen in link uris disguised as referrer IDs, and encoded in HTML comments. - --j. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh CVS iD8DBQFCvDokMJF5cimLx9ARAo7MAJ9ygQHUd23zKc67WnzbuY7DBY083wCeP3rM vux8vVZAYAEDODqE0BxJ930= =Anqf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----