Fwd: [Esa-l]Webbugs using sound not gifs?

[Simon Matthews]

Looks like I completely screwed up typing the email.

Anyway, what I was trying to say was that:
1. I received an email from a sender that I did not recognize.
2. When looking at the full text of the html, I saw what I thought was a 
sound to be played at zero volume.
3. I suspect the sound was pulled from a remote site, with a long (possibly 
unique) URL.
4. Perhaps this could be used to track email reading, in the same way as 
webbugs can?

Simon

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>Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:23:04 -0700 (PDT)
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>I received a strange email that I think very long, indicating that it
>could be unique, hence the sound could have been used to track reading of
>emails.
>
>What do you think?
>
>Simon
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