> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brent Rieck > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 12:46 AM > To: PDXLUG, a Portland Linux user group > Subject: Re: [PDXLUG] e-mail tracking service > > On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 20:03 -0700, Richard Steffens wrote: > > Their web site, http://www.didtheyreadit.com doesn't offer > any clues > > (that I could find, anyway) as to how the system works, > just how to use it. > > I heard the tail end of the guy from didtheyreadit.com > blathering about > it on today on NPR, curious to see what they were actually doing I > signed up for it. > > It's another web-bug scheme with the minorly clever addition of slowly > dripping out the single pixle gif and not closing the http > connection so > they can measure "how long" the message was "open". There's a bug > however where it can't measure more than a 2 minute open time > or send to > multiple recipients with the service. If you have external image > loading turned off all of this tracking won't work of course.
And even in MS Office land Outlook 2003 now defaults to not downloading images. Business plan failure waiting to happen if they don't figure out something real tricky. > > --Brent > > _______________________________________________ > PDXLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.688 / Virus Database: 449 - Release Date: 5/18/2004 > > --- Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.688 / Virus Database: 449 - Release Date: 5/18/2004 _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
