[TriLUG] spam through images (image with text).

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 22:53:22 -0400, Rob Lockhart <rlockhar at trilug.org> wrote:
> I agree, Jon.  I noticed that Mozilla (full) and Thunderbird have a
> feature which only allows images from the mail host to be viewed (thus
> blocking the "new" form of email address validation for spamming
> purposes).  I definitely enable that.  Not too sure how this could be
> easily done on other clients, though.

New?!? e-mail address validation?  It's not new at all.  I've seen
spammers doing that for several years now.

Tanner