[thelist] HTML Emails

[James S. Huggins (Evolt)]

with a third-party company. They have a feature where the welcome message
is text and includes a graphic that can "sense" whether the client is
html-enabled. The graphic is invisible and when the message is read,
the graphic sends a response to a remote database. Clever.

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That is precisely one of the reasons I dislike HTML email: the web bug.
http://www.privacyfoundation.org/education/webbug.html

For another discussion of the technology of HTML email you might read
http://www.arsdigita.com/asj/mime/
This article also discusses the "discovery" technique mentioned above
for setting HTML email as the "default".


James S. Huggins