email question

[DavidJ]

You've gotten pretty good explainations about the gibberish so I won't go into that. As far as the seemingly blank e-mails, they're not really blank. Most of them contain a "web gif" which is a 1 pixel html picture. When you open the e-mail it loads the .gif from the website and viola the sender knows that your e-mail addy is real. They can then really start sending you spam and selling your "confirmed" address. To stop this turn off html graphics in your emails.

 

[Richard]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( You've gotten pretty good explainations about the gibberish so I won't go into that. As far as the seemingly blank e-mails, they're not really blank. Most of them contain a "web gif" which is a 1 pixel html picture. When you open the e-mail it loads the .gif from the website and viola the sender knows that your e-mail addy is real. They can then really start sending you spam and selling your "confirmed" address. To stop this turn off html graphics in your emails. )</font>

Why is it I sometimes wish some of these people were within distance of the back of my hand... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Thanks for that explination, I'll look into that