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+From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>\r
+To: Austin Clements <aclements@csail.mit.edu>\r
+Subject: Re: privacy problem: text/html parts pull in network resources\r
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+On Wed 2015-01-21 16:14:07 -0500, Austin Clements wrote:\r
+> I have a fix for this on shr buried deep in an old patch series that I\r
+> never got back to: id:1398105468-14317-12-git-send-email-amdragon@mit.edu\r
+>\r
+> For shr, the key is to set shr-blocked-images to ".".\r
+\r
+I've just done this, but it doesn't seem to help.\r
+\r
+> However, IIRC, in the current notmuch message rendering pipeline, mm\r
+> overrides this variable with something computed from\r
+> gnus-blocked-images. That said, I'm not sure why gnus-blocked-images\r
+> isn't *already* taking care of this, but that's probably the place to\r
+> start digging.\r
+\r
+gnus-blocked-images is set for me to the function\r
+gnus-block-private-groups, but i don't know what that is (the function\r
+is undocumented afaict). Setting gnus-blocked-images to a regexp of "."\r
+seems to work for me, though.\r
+\r
+ --dkg\r