----- Original Message ----- From: <PhotoRoy6@xxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 9:54 Subject: Re: Yahoo Beacon] : What file is Yahoo putting the beacon in? (so I can erase it) the 'beacon' is actually a web bug http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_bug and are generally gif's of 1x1 pixel. if you want to remove such things you can do a search for all gifs under 1kb in size, problem is that they are effective when you view a page or, as discussed here before, when you load an email written in HTML that has a web bug embedded, hence the reason few computer savvy types will have anything to do with HTML emails oh and they affect all computer users equally irrespective of the operating system k
