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[quote user="Pathfinder"]As noted, whatever you do, do not click, reply or forward these.  At best (for you) you will be confirming that your e-mail is valid and it then will be re-sold.  At worst, they will continue to hound you.[/quote]That's so true.Contrary to what you may have heard in the past, don't ever reply asking to be removed from their list.  That's just letting them know your email address is valid, making it even more valuable for them.This is one of the reasons why you're seeing email programs blocking images unless you allow it.  Even though it's email, those graphics are coming from a server.  When you view the images in your email, the request for that image goes out to whatever server it's hosted at.  That image request can contain information in the url that they can use to identify that the message sent to that particular email address has been viewed, therefore being legit.  It's something that's commonly used by even legitimate persons, particularly marketing people, to track whether or not emails have been read or not.
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