[SC-Help] Re: What it is?

[Jan M. Nelken]

Kenneth Brody wrote:
> "Jan M. Nelken" wrote:
>> I am getting series of Penny stock spam into my Lotus Notes in-basket. It
>> appears that payload is an attached gif which Lotus Notes is "auto-opening" -
>> but this "auto-open" only happens on this kind of spam.
>>
>> In one part I found this term: SRC="cid:OK64699DVVC at texas.net". What does
>> it mean?
> 
> That is probably part of an <img> tag, and it means that the image is an
> attachment to the e-mail.  The "cid:" part identifies the attachment based
> on the identifier that follows.  I believe that one of the attacments will
> have something like "Content-ID:" within it which matches the ID.
> 
> While Lotus may "auto-open" it, you can at least be assured that it is
> grabbing the image from the e-mail itself, rather than using a "web bug"
> off the 'net, which may uniquely identify you to the spammer.
> 

Thanks for the info. I am presuming that "texas.net" of this cid identifier is 
just a part of the string identifier and has nothing to do with texas.net domain 
if such one exists, right?

Jan M. Nelken