Re: HTML formatted email

["Peter Dow" <pcdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Steve, Tom,

For receipts, an email is sent back to the sender when the recipient opens
the email. In OutLook Express, and I assume most other email clients, this
can be made optional -- never do it, ask me, or always do it.

The more insidious problem, as I understand it, is for example if an email
has a link to an image on the sender's computer, when the recipient opens
the email, the recipients email browser has to retrieve the image from the
senders computer. The sender can monitor that activity, and for most
consumers, see the IP address currently assigned to their PC. For most
businesses, they would probably see the IP address of the firewall.

Or, they could attach the actual email address as part of the filename of
the image. When the email reader sends a request for the file, they strip
off the email address and record it, then return the image. That's just a
guess though.

Regards,
Peter Dow
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 425-0194 voice
909 425-0196 fax



----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Richter" <srichter@AutoCoder.com>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: HTML formatted email


> >I would guess you are speaking of 'Return receipts'' but I'd bet that
this
> is not what Steve was asking about. I believe he had a significantly more
> troublesome "feature" in mind.
> >
> >Tom Liotta
> >
>
> I have in mind the activity I see on my dsl modem when I open a msg from
say
> a yahoo msg board. I assume info is being sent back to yahoo saying that I
> am reading the email msg they sent me.
>
> Does "return receipt" sent back its ack msg to the sender when the isp
> receives the msg, when the email recipient receives the msg from the isp
or
> when the msg is opened and read by the recipient?
>
> Steve Richter
>
>
>
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