The only thing I can think of to do is to set a cookie when they sign up for the email list with their userID or whatever, then look for that cookie when they view an article/page. I made a tag that tracks the hits, not the user, for e-mails to get the raw hits generated from a specific source (email newsletter).
>>> Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 07/11/02 04:20PM >>> Each email that you send out goes to a person in a DB, right? So each person has an ID, right? So if you put a link of http://www.site.com/index.cfm?userid=2577 then the index.cfm can take the userid and translate it into the person, right? Is that what you want? > I'm exploring the possibility of being able to figure out the e-mail address > of a user visiting our site based on a weekly mailing we send out. In this > e-mail, there is a link to the latest stories, etc., and we'd like to know > who is accessing the stories from the e-mail. > > The problem is that the file sent out to our mass mailing provider is a flat > HTML file, so I can't do anything like dynamically append the person's > e-mail address to the link. > > Anybody done something like this? > > Thanks in advance, > Dave. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
