Spam

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Ghodmode <ghodmode at ghodmode.com> wrote:
> I hope it's clear that reading an email doesn't constitute visiting all of
> the sites linked in the email and therefore doesn't improve Google page
> ranks or provide any other tracking information.  Also note that the
> original email didn't have anything like a tracking pixel.  Even the urls
> were just text.  They only became links if the readers' email client turned
> them into links.  My email wasn't dangerous or helpful to the spammer in any
> way.

You're correct about emails per se, but list mail gets archived to
web-accessible pages:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2011-August/1277607.html

And yes, URLs become clickable.

ChrisA