[ILUG] [Fwd: Sun StarOffice documents that "phone home" and other interestingproblems]

[Justin Mason]

Caolan McNamara said:

> Dunno, bit of a storm in a teacup if you ask me. What happens by the
> way with netscape mail if I open an html mail with a img src in it.

It requests the image (unless image loading has been explicitly turned
off).

About 50% of the spam I get nowadays tries to exploit this "accidental
address verification" feature.

Evolution (the new GNOME mailer) will probably not load images by default
via HTTP or FTP because of this.

--j.