Yes, that's exactly why it happens. I just found it amusing that there would be so many.
I personally find it more likely (at least in this case) that it's a bandwidth decision on Amazon's part - why send out millions of images when you can just as easily send a url? I can see, however, that more underhanded people may be interested in watching their messages travel around the world. I can't see whyyou'd be interested, but I can see that they would.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-06-01 08:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-01 10:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-06-01 10:14 am (UTC)You can turn off HTML email on your amazon preferences.
I shall withold my rant about why HTML email was the worst invention 'eva for latter.
no subject
Date: 2005-06-01 10:27 am (UTC)I personally find it more likely (at least in this case) that it's a bandwidth decision on Amazon's part - why send out millions of images when you can just as easily send a url? I can see, however, that more underhanded people may be interested in watching their messages travel around the world. I can't see whyyou'd be interested, but I can see that they would.
Why I care
Date: 2005-06-01 10:32 am (UTC)Re: Why I care
Date: 2005-06-01 10:58 am (UTC)Though I didn't think spambots cared whether an email address was valid or not ... surely they just ignore bounces?
no subject
Date: 2005-06-01 11:11 am (UTC)Nah, as someone who has been known to read his email via TELNETting to the mail server, find any MIME encoded email (Including HTML) highly annoying.
Re: Why I care
Date: 2005-06-01 11:21 am (UTC)