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

[Mike M]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 10:53:22PM -0400, Rob Lockhart wrote:
> Jon Carnes wrote:
> 
> > Also a lot of spam these days is encoded in a gif - so it looks
> > like a real message, but its simply an image. I don't think spam
> > assassin is doing too good a job against that currently.
> 
> 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.

I use Mutt.  I can't see images unless I want to see them.  Ok, I take
that back.  I can see ASCII art.

-- 
Mike

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