Okay....can Microsoft really track an email message?

Just got a spammish email.

[clearvision]

I just got this email saying that....oh heck I will just post it here:

<snip>

yada, yada, yada...the bottomline is they will send $ if you forward it. I usually just delete this stuff, but got it from someone who's opinion I respect(possible the past tense now :) ) .

Which brought up a thought, can they really track an email like this?

[edited by: lawman at 5:28 pm (utc) on June 9, 2005]
[edit reason] TOS 9 [/edit]

[sem4u]

Sounds like junk to me...

[Essex_boy]

Trash it.

I received one of these about 5 years ago between then and now I have seen Bill Gates personally trash this email and say it is rubbish.

[clearvision]

oops....sorry about the TOS breach.

Thanks, that is what I have been doing. I just wondered if there was a technical way that MS could track an email.... I didn't think so :)

[Timotheos]

The longevity of this hoax is amazing.

[snopes.com...]

[rocknbil]

haha .. yeah that one's been going around forever. Mr. Gates must have gotten quite rich off it! :-)

[clearvision]

Something funny... at the bottom of the email it had a link to their "New Search Engine"...