CDR: Re: Software to Track E-Mail Raises Privacy Concerns

"A. Melon" wrote:

The technology in question is seemingly innocuous: the ability of the latest e-mail programs to send and display images. E-mail senders use the feature, based on the Web's computer language, to create colorful messages known as HTML mail.

But many also use it to embed tiny images that are invisible to the recipients. Marketers call them pixel tags and say they are used to gauge the success of e-mail campaigns. Privacy advocates prefer a more ominous name Ñ Web bugs.

one more reason that HTML in e-mails should die.