Outlook 2003 and Images in Messages

I was wondering if anyone out there could explain to me how legitimate emails that I receive through my Exchange Server to Outlook 2003 would force me to right-click on images within messages to specify whether or not to download the images contained within the email, while true junk messages can download numerous pictures of erectile disfunction pills WITHOUT me having to right-click the broken image lines and choose "Download pictures".

How do they do that? How are they able to get around whatever Outlook 2003 has in place to prevent image downloads?

Thanks in advance!

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  • If the image is embedded in the message, Outlook will display it. Otherwise Outlook blocks it, so that you don't confirm to the spammer that your email is valid by downloading the image from his web server - the url to download such images can and often does contain a unique identifier.

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