[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Michael Brown]

> Okay, now before you read my response to a previous message (which
> answers all your concerns), can anybody come up with any more problems
> with the HTML IMG tag approach?  That was certainly a rather major salvo
> of bashing you folks put up ;-P
>
>  - Dave

Yes, it effectively allows spammers to see if someone has read their
message.  They simply place a unique 1x1 pixel emoticon in each message
sent, and see if the webserver ever receives a request for it, and if it
does, they send you more spam.  ;-)

Michael.