RE: Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

By defailt, the AOL 9.0 email reader blocks images including Web bugs in
HTML email messages.

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
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Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 6:07 AM
To: 'Jeff Kell'
Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: RE: [funsec] Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail

> > Can the user "opt out" of this "special treatment"?  Or are they 
> > forced to view [by AOLs mail client] whatever the paid sender desires?

I don't know if you can opt out of receiving any such mail, but Goodmail's
rules (http://www.goodmailsystems.com/aup.pdf) prohibit unsolicited mail and
require that senders include unsubscribe requests and honor them. 

> > Maybe we're focusing on the wrong end of the issue.  
> > Beacons, web bugs, and other tracking spyware are guaranteed to work 
> > in AOLs client? regardless?

I don't know that AOL's client supports them at all. It probably does since
it supports HTML e-mail. I would think the only way to block web bugs
completely would be to make your mail text-only; if that's what you want why
would you be using AOL?

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.ziffdavis.com/seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer () ziffdavis com 


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