Dick Hazeleger wrote:
> Dave Higham wrote:
>> "YoKenny" wrote:
>>> MSGTAG is stupid marketing hype. With all the virus/worms and
>>> spammer tracking tricks called "web bugs" many people are making
>>> their email clients
>>> only work in "plain text only" mode. Besides, I would not trust
>>> them after
>>> reading their privacy policy. In fact I have the following in my
>>> HOSTS file to totally disable them.
>>>
>>> 127.0.0.1 img.msgtag.com
>>> 127.0.0.1 www.msgtag.com
>>
>> Hmm, kinda think that's an over-reaction - not sure why you distrust
>> them so much. I used it in the past and it was OK, receipt of the
>> email triggers an automatic notification to the sender - no clicking
>> is required by the receiver. As you said though, it doesn't work if
>> the email client is set to plain text mode. In response to the
>> original poster - I believe the free software is a cut-down version,
>> if you pay for the upgrade you get additional features.
>>
>> Dave
>
> Dave,
>
> I have one simple question: Do you like being tracked by web bugs? If
> so, then go ahead and let yourself be tracked, but to do so to
> others... If I would receive such messages there would be a first time
> warning, the next occurrance of the same... killfile, period end of
> story!
>
> This technique first requires you to send the bulkiest of all mail
> types: HTML-mail, and then it sends little spies in the message, just
> so you know that the message was received/read? This world really has
> gone mad, and the worst is... people think it's normal to do so!!!

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