Full Disclosure: Re: Testing DidTheyReadIt.com

[Brian Taylor <btaylor () spsu edu>]

I highly doubt it.  How would they track a plain text email?  There's nothing in email, apart from the servers that are 
handling the email, to facilitate this.  Now if someone specifically designed an email client to talk to the 
'didtheyreadit.com' servers and inform them directly of when they read email and everyone used it to read email.

It works just like the US post office...  You send mail, but unless the recipient does something or you paid the post 
office extra to obtain proof of delivery then you'll never know if it got there.



---- Original message ----
> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:01:19 -0400
> From: Fabrizio <staticrez () gmail com>  
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Testing DidTheyReadIt.com  
> To: full-disclosure () lists grok org uk
>
>   Looks like it's similar to the 1px transparent image
>   technique spammers use. Gmail seems to be blocking
>   an image in the email. I wonder if this works with
>   plain text emails.
>
>   Fabrizio
>
>   p.s. i read this list on the weekends.
>
>   On 9/29/07, Juha-Matti Laurio
>   <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi> wrote:
>
>     Your headers etc. doesn't state that this service
>     is in use.
>
>     If your test will work, it is interesting to know
>     how many read this list during the weekends too.
>     Maybe you can let us know.
>
>     BTW:
>     http://www.didtheyreadit.com/index.php/html/howitworks#tagging
>
>     - Juha-Matti
>
>     Thierry Zoller <Thierry () Zoller lu> wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi All,
>     >
>     > Just a sample test of how many of you read this
>     email. Let's see how
>     > good it performs for mailinglists and what comes
>     out.
>     >
>     > More info - DidTheyReadIt.com
>     >
>     >
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