Re: Gmail account owners?

["Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis () MIT EDU>]

On 05/19/2010 03:35 PM, Jason C. Belford wrote:
> In my experience, Gmail accounts do not show remote images by
> default.  Getting the user to actually push the "Display Images
> Below" would be the only way that the image would be requested (and
> thus IP identified).  Has anyone used this method and actually been
> successful?

Yes. A few years ago... against a Yahoo account. The website was
engineered so that when the image was viewed it would send an SMS to my
phone. The IP address was on our campus and I was able to dispatch
someone to "eyeball" the perpetrator.... nailed!

                        -Jeff

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