Brion Vibber wrote:
If one of the list admins sent this through; please don't. It's *spam*.
They crawl the web for e-mail addresses and then send these things out as advertisements for their link-checking / availability service. Which, of course, means they're crawling our web site and loading it down. *Thanks* so much.
The HTML mail also contains a "web bug": a 1x1 pixel transparent GIF image which contains a unique ID number and additionally sets a cookie when you view it, which happens automatically on many popular e-mail clients.
This is one of those points where I give a rant about HTML email being pure evil. Thank whatever that OE finally got a 'View all email as plain text' option a while back. Considered dropping web traffic from them? Cutting off a misbehaving spider would be good... and this reminds me, let's make certain that the 'submit' button never, ever becomes a link. Else eveyr bad spider will wreak havoc. -- Jake