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Not nefarious?
There's more than one disturbing fact in your blog - that CNet is tracing the newsletter. The reason you gave is specious. You can't figure out why a newletter is or isn't opened, based on just the stats for opening it. All you can do is make guesses.

This makes me suspect there is another reason for tracing the newsletters and I hope it's not nefarious.

Time to cancel my newsletter I think.


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Posted by: TonyMcS   Posted on: 09/26/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Not nefarious?  TonyMcS | 09/26/06
Guessing  dberlind | 09/27/06
Not so fast, Mr Berlind  sinleeh@... | 09/27/06
The "click through" rate for emails is valuable information for ZDNet, and  DonnieBoy | 09/30/06
Here's my question...  Badgered | 09/29/06
Traceability  skykingoh | 10/27/06
Dave, tell us about the 36 tracking methods they say they use.  DonnieBoy | 09/30/06
Unplug network cable  XP user | 09/27/06
Scarey stuff  opensourcepro | 09/27/06
Even if you disable it on your end...  stevenc413 | 09/27/06
You can forward email as straight text, even if recieved in html. That  DonnieBoy | 09/30/06
From now on, cut-n-paste!  lonnie_heston@... | 09/27/06
I might be...  el1jones | 09/27/06
forward as plain text  SteveTheWirePuller | 09/29/06
Every webmaster is tracing its user  sinleeh@... | 09/27/06
Yahoo uses web beacons (planted in discussion groups) to track people  thatdangpc | 09/27/06
What Privacy  henkenm@... | 09/27/06
So what..  Patrick Jones | 09/28/06
Solutions to outlook vulnerabilities....  mroonie | 09/28/06
easy, don't use outlook.  CobraA1 | 09/28/06
Well, what about the obvious  iamingozi@... | 09/28/06
Don't use Outlook or OE  Chad_z | 09/28/06
Read it all is says:  victor@... | 09/30/06
Precise Outlook behavior?  outtanames999 | 09/29/06
Dave, a previous article said there are 36 different, simultaneous tracking  DonnieBoy | 09/30/06
Another thing Dave, could you post the entire message sent to your CNet  DonnieBoy | 09/30/06
pattymail  elmerpaul | 10/27/06
not nefarious  youdoofus@... | 10/27/06
Easy to identify exact recipient  bob@... | 10/27/06
Microsoft Will Pay You $50 for each person you forward this email to  TrekkieBear | 10/29/06
now it is being used by spammers  HELP@... | 11/02/06

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