I saw this and forgot to blog about it the other day, nasty thing in email (UPDATE: solution tomorrow I found now)
Tags :Rant
The scenario is you turn off return receipts
in your environment because like me, you think people knowing when you
read email is like them knowing when you check your voicemail at home.
Annoying at best. So people get mad that they cannot tell when
you read their mail. Of course, some aspiring tech geek came up with
the solution. You can see the site right
here, but I will give the
run down.
- The user signs up for an account. Free for 5 tests then you pay a fee
- The user addresses all email to yourcomapny.com.didtheyreadit.com and their system strips and sends it on as normal
- The email also gets a nice little HTML piece in it when it goes through.
- This tracks when you open it, how long it was open and how many times. They have screenshots on their site of addressing and what the tracker sees
- The user then logs into the site and can see all the emails they have sent through and status
So how to get around it. Don't accept HTML? Do all your email off-line? It gets better every time doesn't it? THis one I am about to play with and look into to find a way to catch the little bugger.
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On Thursday, May 27th, 2004 by Chris Miller
