From: "David B Funk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Michael Grey wrote:
In regards to the second, many large companies have outside companies do work
for them in the areas of marketing and other aspects. So this also will
happen regardless.
Let me clarify; this is an OUTSIDE relay to INSIDE...
A FuzzyOCR White List with (very privately held) keywords would help.
Any other ideas ?
Sit down and have a little hart-to-heart with your marketing people.
They may want to rethink their methods. Put the images on a web-server
and e-mail links to them.
You can hack your local mail system to not spam-tag those messages
but what about the intended potential customer recipients?
If you're tagging them then that should be an indication that other
people will too.
The world changes, sometimes due to actions of bad people. After 9/11
it became a bad idea to try to send white powder thru snail-mail.
Thanks to image-spammers it's becoming not so good an idea to send
imbedded-image e-mails (particularly if it's a marketing campain ;).
Marketing campaigns via email are deadly these days regardless of
embedded whazzits or whozzits. I don't CARE if I have any prior
relationship with company fubar. If they send me marketing it goes
to the spam bucket. And it is liable to be used for anti-spam training
if the BAYES score was too low.
Sending an account summary as an email image is perhaps one of the
stupidest ideas any marketdroid has concocted. (If it is part of a
marketing plan this raises sincere concerns about the cell company's
privacy policy, too.)
{^_^}
