[SpamCop-List] Re: Empty spam, again
Dar
nobody at spamcop.net
Sat Feb 7 09:37:34 EST 2004
> If you have HTML turned off in your e-mail, it's quite possible that the
> spam is not empty, but is a single image with a link that is not visible.
>
> Out of curiosity on day I loaded one of these "empty" spams into a browser
> window, and a lovely image of some farm girls playing with a horse came
up.
> I could then click the image if I wanted to, and join in on the farm fun.
> (woohoo)
>
> I use Eudora and cannot see the source of the e-mail from Eudora. I can
> only get it if I load the e-mail into a browser window. Don't know any
> other way around this other than loading it in a "safe" browser (one with
> cookies, java, activex and scripting disabled, and using a strong
firewall).
Unless the sender is on an accept list, our spam filters strip email
and spit it out in plain text format. There's definitely nothing in the
body of these emails I'm referring to.
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