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* gnus dials up, when I read my spam
@ 2002-07-24 13:58 Niels Langager Ellegaard
  2002-07-24 14:10 ` James Riden
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Niels Langager Ellegaard @ 2002-07-24 13:58 UTC (permalink / raw)



When i read a spam mail with HTML, gnus dials up to get some of the
images. I have an idea that some of the spammers are able to discover
that I have dialed up, and that this will result in me getting even
more spam. Therefore I would like to disable the dial-up feature.

How do I do this?

                Thanks in advance
                Niels

PS: I am using:
Gnus v5.8.6 on XEmacs 21.4 (patch 6) "Common Lisp" [Lucid]
(i386-debian-linux) of Mon Jan 21 2002 on eeyore

PPS: Here is a printout of the *Help Lossage* buffer
(Sorry about the length)

Recent minibuffer messages (most recent first):

space = page forward; b = page back; h = help; q = quit.
Note: file is write protected
Enhancing image... done
Quit
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Reading [image/gif]... 1k of 2k (39%)
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Enhancing image...
Contacting ussoft.co.kr:80          <- This is the important line
Request sent, waiting for response...
Request sent, waiting for response...
Request sent, waiting for response...
Request sent, waiting for response...
Drawing... -
Drawing... -
Drawing... |
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Loading rect...done
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Generating summary...done
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Suppressing duplicates...done
Suppressing duplicates...
-- 
Niels L Ellegaard  http://dirac.ruc.dk/~gnalle/


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* Re: gnus dials up, when I read my spam
  2002-07-24 13:58 gnus dials up, when I read my spam Niels Langager Ellegaard
@ 2002-07-24 14:10 ` James Riden
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: James Riden @ 2002-07-24 14:10 UTC (permalink / raw)


Niels Langager Ellegaard <gnalle@ruc.dk> writes:

> When i read a spam mail with HTML, gnus dials up to get some of the
> images. I have an idea that some of the spammers are able to discover
> that I have dialed up, and that this will result in me getting even
> more spam. Therefore I would like to disable the dial-up feature.

Yep, sometimes the tag looks like <img
src="whatever.jpg?youremailaddress@example.com">.

cheers,
 Jamie
-- 
James Riden / james.riden@ed.ac.uk / jamesr@europe.com
MSc student, Dept. of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.


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