On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 20:03, Richard Steffens wrote: > Has anyone heard about DidTheyReadIt? It was written up in USA Today, > today (Thu., May 20, 2004). It's supposed to be a service that will tell > you "whether someone opens your e-mail, how long the recipient keeps it > open -- even where geographically the recipient is reading it." The > service is supposed to launch on Monday. > > I don't understand how it could work without some willingness on the > part of the recipient to play along. They claim that the recipient won't > know about it.
The only way that I could see it working is to use HTML mail and put a 1x1 pixel graphic where the name is coded (or a graphical add). That way, a web server pointed to, could count the fact that they are reading it. If you put a reload tag (I can't remember what it is called), you might be able to measure how long they are viewing it. I haven't actually tried any of this, but I could see it working. Scott _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
