TFBW's Journal: HTML email is more evil than you can possibly imagine

The person who decided that HTML was a good format for email deserves to be shot by a firing squad of about a million persons armed with air rifles (or B-B guns, as I believe they say in the USA). Want to DDoS someone's web server by spamming? Easy! Just include the following approximately 400 times per spam.

<IFRAME SRC="http://www.nutters.org/log" WIDTH=100% HEIGHT=5 FRAMEBORDER=0 SCROLLING=no></IFRAME>

That's the kind of spam that's being sent today, and everyone who opens it in a viewer which is happy to render HTML and IFRAMEs then proceeds to send 400 consecutive requests to my web server for the same page. Bingo: instant distributed denial of service generated by spam.

I need MAJOR bandwidth -- like AKAMAI bandwidth, or I'm sunk.