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If you send email from your sites, register your sites now, if you haven't already.
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[edited by: hannamyluv at 4:29 pm (utc) on Aug. 25, 2004]
Non-compliance with Sender ID will cause even bigger problems for marketers who try to send e-mail containing graphical images, the increasingly common strategy of dressing up e-mail marketing messages with product photos and promotional illustrations, Daniels says
SP2 for WinXP already blocks images by default - however embedding (attached to the email using MIME) images into email will work. Historically AOL support for HTML was so broken that the safest method was to just send plain text.
Anyway if its easy to regiser for SenderID then I see no reason why spammers won't just do it...
They all get bounced back to the sender because some valid mail had an image for a signature.
They get bounced with the following message:
"Unable to deliver your message to XXXXX XXXXX SystemsThis mail system does not accept images in the GIF and JPG format. Nor does it accept imbedded images such as graphic signatures etc.
This mail folder is not monitored, please don't use: "reply-to"
Thank you,"
The reduction in spam was spectacular and the valid senders received the notice and were able to resend.
The reduction in spam was spectacular and the valid senders received the notice and were able to resend.
What about valid opt-in newsletters like Amazons or what not that use images? Bouncing everything on the basis of images referenced in HTML sounds a bit too harsh to me.
I registered a couple of domains, and it was quick and easy.
Jim
Bouncing everything on the basis of images referenced in HTML sounds a bit too harsh to me.
Most valid news letters have a text or graphic option. As a matter of interest once we started rejecting graphics several major players started offering the option. I don't claim they changed because of the 500+ per day we were bouncing, but something caused the change...
Most valid news letters have a text or graphic option.
Yes but personally I prefer nice HTML emails, do you bounce those emails with images which were specifically requested by customers or you just force customers to choose text version?
specifically requested by customers
This is an office environment that receives in excess of 1,200 messages a day we don't have customers requesting news letters.
We have employees who were spending 20-30 minutes per day sorting through a lot of drug and mortgage junk.
This is an office environment
I guess in this case it was appropriate and prudent from security point of view (HTML is executable)!
