another reason not to use HTML

[kelley at pulpculture.org]

Neulevel's Postminder Tracks Email Without Recipient ApprovaL
Politech 5/24/2002
by Declan McCullagh

http://www.politechbot.com/p-03580.html

  [How rude and annoying. From now on, I'm only going to use /usr/bin/Mail 
or maybe tail -100 from the mail spool... --Declan]

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From: [deleted --DBM]

Subject: Neulevel's PostMinder tracks e-mails without recipient approval

Neulevel's PostMinder tool <http://www.postminder.biz> sends out 
confirmations to the sender that the recipient has read an e-mail even when 
the recipient has disabled Return Receipts.

If your mail reader displays HTML, it will send a message back to Neulevel 
to indicate that your message has been read. In addition, it displays a 
message "The sender of this message requests confirmation when you read it. 
Click here to confirm." No need to click -- it has already been confirmed.

If you dislike this, you can set your mail reader to Text-only/no HTML 
allowed.Eudora users can disable "Use Microsoft's viewer" 
(Tools/Options/Viewing Mails).