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0 pointsmanuelflara12y ago0 comments

That's not reliable enough. A lot of email clients (or users) have images off by default, at least when reading emails from new senders.

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lutusp12y ago

> That's not reliable enough.

It's reliable enough for a spammer. Remember spam is a numbers game -- things only have to work as hoped a small percentage of the time for the system to work.

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0 pointsmanuelflara12y ago0 comments

That's not reliable enough. A lot of email clients (or users) have images off by default, at least when reading emails from new senders.

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lutusp12y ago

> That's not reliable enough.

It's reliable enough for a spammer. Remember spam is a numbers game -- things only have to work as hoped a small percentage of the time for the system to work.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse