On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Levi Bard wrote:
>> Usually to verify your address as a working one. Sometimes they hope that
>> you will go to some page which has viruses, or as another less advanced
>> method of verifying your address.
>
> Some of the older ones used to be html emails that contained a
> reference to a transparent gif or similar on the spammer's site, so
> when/if you opened it, if your client was set to render html email, it
> would attempt to load the image from the site, and the spammer would
> simply reap the http server log.
There you have it. Non-HTML-capable MUAs reduce spam.
(Yes, I know that's a gross simplification...)
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