There are interesting things in the marketing world - although I personally know very little about it (not being a marketing major or anything). First off, there is such a thing called "Push marketing" and another thing called "Pull Marketing". The kind of marketing where you see a message that say something like "Click here for more information on a product that could help you do such and such." - that would be "pull" marketing. If you see a message that has all or most of the sales pitch right in front of you (eg: your HTML email example), that would be known as push marketing.

Clearly, push marketing is typically more effective because it requires less action on the part of the customer - so that's what spammers have typically gone for. There are email systems out there that use pull marketing methods - and work well (under their given conditions) for outlook users in the situation you describe. They're out there. You just have to look. =)

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Burns, John D wrote:

> Won't be very successfuly if it is written.  Outlook now won't load
> images by default unless the user specifically asks for it and that
> would be the only way to track how many have been opened.  This is a
> great thing to be able to do, but, thanks to SPAMmers, we have lost
> some of that ability.  Good luck finding what you need, but be
> forewarned that it's not going to be able to give you everything you
> want completely.
>
>
> John
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Butch Zaccheo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tue 6/29/2004 5:55 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: E-mail Marketing/Tracking Software
>
> I�m looking for pre-written application to start a permission based e-mail
> campaign. Is there anything that already exists written in coldfusion? I
> need to be able to track email after it�s been sent (has e-mail been
> opened,
> how many times viewed, etc.).
>
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated....
>
> BZaccheo
>
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