The usual trick is to include an image fetched by a URL. The URL contains the
image address, as well as some unique identifier that identifies you. The image
is fetched when you display the page, confirming that you received it.
MUAs (User Agents) also support Return Receipts to varying
The only caveat with this is if your mail client blocks the loading of images
by default. Spammers used the trick of a 1px X 1px transparent jpg to track
their conversions so some mail clients stopped loading images by default.
Jeffrey Taylor
613-325-1368
On 2012-01-06, at 8:14 PM, Glenn
When you can ping other machines via internal IP addresses (on the same
switched network), you're not really using dns. You're actually using
arp tables that uses the layer two addressing within your client
operating system. (MAC addresses) Internally, you are just using the
router's
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.cawrote:
the lawyer took it one step further, asking whether there was a way
to absolutely *guarantee* that someone you emailed had read that
email. i'm not a mail protocol expert but i thought about it briefly,
then said
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 09:20:38PM -0500, Ian Ward wrote:
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.cawrote:
the lawyer took it one step further, asking whether there was a way
to absolutely *guarantee* that someone you emailed had read that
email. i'm not a mail
On 12-01-06 09:20 PM, Ian Ward wrote:
People commonly call a shared exchange server email, and I believe with
exchange and a bunch of microsoft email clients you can tell when an email
has been displayed.
But even then, I don't know how this could ever be the same as saying that
a person
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 07:26:51PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
lunching with some friends today, and got into an interesting debate
with someone who was a lawyer and someone who was a marketing person.
we started talking about sending out email, and whether it was
technically
On 12-01-06 10:12 PM, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
The email protocol does not include any way to check if the
email has been read.
People have used other tricks to tell if the email has been opened.
One is the include a link and if the person clicks on it, the
email has been read.
Another is
On 12-01-06 07:26 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
the lawyer took it one step further, asking whether there was a way
to absolutely*guarantee* that someone you emailed had read that
email.
Don't hire this guy. He should know enough about the way people act to
realize that you can guarantee
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:28:34PM -0500, Shawn H Corey wrote:
On 12-01-06 10:12 PM, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
The email protocol does not include any way to check if the
email has been read.
People have used other tricks to tell if the email has been opened.
One is the include a link and
On 12-01-06 10:30 PM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
On 12-01-06 07:26 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
the lawyer took it one step further, asking whether there was a way
to absolutely*guarantee* that someone you emailed had read that
email.
Don't hire this guy. He should know enough about the way people
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:42:47PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:28:34PM -0500, Shawn H Corey wrote:
On 12-01-06 10:12 PM, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
The email protocol does not include any way to check if the
email has been read.
People have used other
On 12-01-06 10:48 PM, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:42:47PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:28:34PM -0500, Shawn H Corey wrote:
On 12-01-06 10:12 PM, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
The email protocol does not include any way to check if the
email has
99% of the email users in the world don't understand filters, MUAs or
Exchange. They will view the message and get counted. (They also run the virus
installs and keep the consultants at FutureShop in business). :)
--
Glenn Henshaw Waterloo, Canada
Email: thraxi...@mac.com
On
On 06/01/12 Glenn Henshaw said:
The usual trick is to include an image fetched by a URL. The URL contains
the image address, as well as some unique identifier that identifies you.
The image is fetched when you display the page, confirming that you
received it.
All the more reason to
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:59:25PM -0500, Shawn H Corey wrote:
On 12-01-06 10:48 PM, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:42:47PM -0500, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 10:28:34PM -0500, Shawn H Corey wrote:
On 12-01-06 10:12 PM, Brenda J. Butler wrote:
The
Whatever contract you signed will have said something along the lines of
delivered by registered mail will be deemed to be sufficient notice.
However, the contract, or applicable case law, may require only that
the document be delivered to a place. A court would not care whether
you read it or
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