Asking internally what the story behind this is.. Scott.
On Nov 30, 2007 5:42 PM, Andrew Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sounds like Outlook hasn't been patched. This indeed is how it is > supose to work. provided outlook 2003 has all updates applied. > > > > On 11/30/07, Ryan Sabir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > Just an interesting thing I found the other day... > > > > I was building a little app that embeds a web bug in an email so I can > > test if a user has read it. It uses a 1 pixel gif image, that has the source > > pointing back at the server, so it makes a call to a CF page to tell me > > who's read it... pretty basic tracking behavior... > > > > So I get the test emails in my inbox and I get the usual > > "Right-click here to download pictures. To help protect your privacy, > > Outlook prevented automatic download of this picture from the Internet" > > > > I expected this, and figured I would need to choose to download pictures > > before my read would get tracked. However, before I did this, I looked at my > > tracking database.. lo and behold it had recorded a read event for the email > > I had just recieved... even though I didn't choose to download pictures. > > > > I always thought I Outlook wouldn't sent the GET request for the > > tracking bug, until after I chose to download pictures. I assumed all the > > SPAM I get wasn't actually sending messages back to the originators. Was I > > wrong? Has anyone else noticed this behavioir.. or is there something funky > > with my system? > > > > This is Outlook 2003 on Win XP by the way. > > > > thanks! > > > > > > > > Ryan Sabir > > Technical Director > > > > *p:* (02) 9274 8030 > > *f:* (02) 9274 8099 > > *m:* 0411 512 454 > > *w:* www.newgency.com *Newgency Pty Ltd* > > Web | Multimedia | eMarketing > > > > 115 Cooper St > > Surry Hills NSW 2010 > > Sydney, Australia > > > > > > www.aegeon.com.au > > Phone: +613 8676 4223 > > Mobile: 0404 998 273 > > > > > > -- Regards, Scott Barnes http://www.mossyblog.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
