Re: Firedrop + $90 million = ??!

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From: Dave Winer (dave@userland.com)
Date: Wed Oct 18 2000 - 07:49:09 PDT

It's even worse than it appears.

If you include a gif or jpeg in an html email, the sender can also tell if
the person read the spam.

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Dossick" <sdossick@ipal.com>
To: "Gavin Thomas Nicol" <gtn@ebt.com>
Cc: <FoRK@xent.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: Firedrop + $90 million = ??!

> Think how cool it will be when spammers realize that not only can they
> send us junk ads for diplomas from "prestigious non-accredited
> universities", but they can send an html order form too!
>
> (snicker snicker)
> -s
>
> Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
>
> > > I do remember FoRK all racked our brains this summer and
> > > couldn't figure out why people want to use zaplets.
> >
> > ... and then I thought about how long it'd take to replicate
> > the technology. I had a "hit count" zaplet running in a
> > couple of hours.
> >
> > Apart from the security holes, what is there?
>

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