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Fulton Green wrote:

>For that matter, you wouldn't even need the email value in the URL; a
>spammer-side DB could associate the UNIQUE_ID value with a particular
>email addy.
>
>On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:22:58PM -0500, Jason Day wrote:
>  
>
>>On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 10:51:48AM -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>You can certainly validate an email address by embedding a link to a 
>>>unique image in a message if the mail tool displays images.  Simply 
>>>create a 1x1 pixel white image and name it to be unique, as:
>>>
>>>esotericAT3times25.net.png
>>>
>>>And then send it to me.  If my browers opens the image, there'll be a 
>>>record of such in the web server that's serving the image.
>>>      
>>>
>>Oh, it's much worse than that.  You could put something like this in an
>>email:
>>
>><img
&gt;&gt;src=&quot;<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://3times25.net/cgi-bin/webbug?email=esoteric%403times25.net&amp;UNIQUE_ID=blahblah&amp;timestamp=2004.01.05.13.20.00&quot";>http://3times25.net/cgi-bin/webbug?email=esoteric%403times25.net&amp;UNIQUE_ID=blahblah&amp;timestamp=2004.01.05.13.20.00&quot</a>;
&gt;&gt;width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
&gt;&gt;
&gt;&gt;See the webbug faq here:
&gt;&gt;<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Marketing/web_bug.html";>http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Marketing/web_bug.html</a>
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