I hate spam
I saw a new trick today from e-mail spammers. They've managed to craft spam such that it'll pop open a new "reply" window in mail when certain spam arrives, even if my filters file it away.
It uses some kind of HTML refresh trick in the header of the message to spawn a reply window. I'd post the html, but my skills are too weak to figure out how to nest HTML in HTML. ;-)
Anyway, now I have to look forward to random outgoing mail messages popping up throughout the day until I can figure out a way around this. Woo-hoo!
In all frankness, just what to the spammers hope to gain by employing increasingly annoying means? Tricking your potential customers into replying strikes me as particularly bad business.
Comments
File a radar on this, i would. (and will, if i get one)
http://bugreporter.apple.com/ as i'm sure you are familiar with :)
Posted by: Ben Hines | December 16, 2003 11:23 PM
To modify the old saying:
"friends don't send friends html"
Mail.app now has a "Display images and embedded objects in HTML" checkbox which you can turn off, but unfortunately, no way to completely disbale html AFAIK.. maybe I should file a feature request. I know some other mail clients have this option.
I really can't see any way that HTML within e-mails brings any good to anyone, it's either used for OTT messages and advertising, SPAM, or garishly coloured large text e-mails.
end mini-rant
It would be interesting to see what this e-mail of yours is doing, especially if its in the headers :-/ Sounds nasty.
Posted by: ben b | December 18, 2003 11:46 PM