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RE: Computer question


that's what make "html" email format so "dangerous" - its just like looking
at a web page and you are seeing images on the web page come from a
server...

tom

Donna Dawson
Member Garden Writers Association of America
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-----Original Message-----
From: gardenwriters-admin@lists.ibiblio.org
[g*@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Lon J.
Rombough
Sent: May 16, 2002 3:06 PM
To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [GWL] Computer question


on 5/16/02 1:09 PM, Donna Dawson at donna@icangarden.com wrote:

> hi lon, tom here (donnas husband that doesn't normally read the gw list -
> but she's away) one method is to simply use html to "point" at a graphic
on
> a server - for instance - <a href="img src="http://205.49.59.3/test.gif&quot;>
> that way, the only thing in the email is the text and when it is opened it
> goes and "gets" the image...
>
>
> tom...
That's the first I knew of an e-mail being able to get something from a
server without causing the web browser to open.  I have to admit this one
didn't LOOK like it was connecting somewhere else, but I'm not that computer
savvy.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, more, plus word on my grape book at
http://www.bunchgrapes.com


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