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macspoofing on Dec 12, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Images Now Showing in Gmail

If the gmail proxy caches every image that is sent to a gmail address, then this bad for spammers, and good for everyone else. That's one less mechanism to verify valid (or active) email address.

tehwebguy on Dec 12, 2013 [–]

I wonder if Google will access an image URL in an email sent to a nonexistent address

macspoofing on Dec 12, 2013 | [–]

They almost have to, otherwise it would be much too easy to scrape gmail addresses (from Google itself!).

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