Many emails now contain HTML with images that are loaded from the remote
server when you read them.  At minimum, this tells the sender that you
did read the email and they also get your IP address at the same time.

Some email programs such as the freeware Mozilla Thunderbird allow you
to automatically block all email images unless/until you want to view them.
This lets you check out emails without giving away any information.

Kevin


Robert Citkowitz wrote:

>Every so often I check (vs delete) a suspicious email, eg, "Ship confirmation, Tracking number ..." I use the ZoneAlarm internet lock before reading the email - this one (as I suspected) had the tell-tale box with red x, indicating I would have been connected to a website, as well as containing a series of interesting quotations which would keep me occupied for awhile. And it was addressed to 5 fellow att.net members with addresses having the same first 3 letters - obviously spam, seemingly harvested from the att.net membership list, and a short enough list to get past the att spamstopper.
>
>My question is, am I paranoid, or is it a possibility that while I'm reading the quotations before deleting, something unwanted would be going on with the website? If so, like what?
>
>Another question is, like the recent attempted harvesting of PCSoft addresses, can someone also hack ATT.net, or other servers, for their address list?
>
>Rob
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