Re: Sort of OT - Tracking clicked links in an email?

From: johnny (johnny_at_nothere.com)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:51:27 -0600

I really don't know what you mean here. You said, "Links in an email
that attempt to "Phone Home" when clicked are going to have firewall alerts
popping up like crazy."

Our company is thinking of using bCentral's List Builder to send out a
newsletter. We are not spammers. We (I) liked it because it is an opt-in and
very easy opt-out mailer. It also (I think) gives us the ability to see, via
a report back to us, who received the newsletter and who also actually
clicked on any link. We don't want to cause any trouble for our customers.
Will it, or any newsletter that does reporting of any kind, cause firewall
alerts to go off? By just happening to see your reply you may have saved me
a lot of grief!

"Steve Easton" <admin@95isalive.com> wrote in message
news:e7qI4AU$DHA.268@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> To send it you will need a third party application.
> One you might try is Listmaster pro from AnalogX
> http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/lmpro.htm
>
> As for the second part about tracking links, <imho> that is the fastest
way
> I can think of to put yourself right out of business. Links in an email
> that attempt to "Phone Home" when clicked are going to have firewall
alerts
> popping up like crazy.
> </imho>
>
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> Steve Easton
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> "Mr B" <ladeeda@hahaha.com> wrote in message
> news:htsr30tfmuk4jrdjmkv3lkse2t1665aevd@4ax.com...
> > Howdy,
> >
> > We are working on setting up an HTML based newsletter for the members of
> our association. I may use
> > FP to design the look of the email since that's what we use to do the
> website.
> >
> > Is there any way to link up FP with some way of sending the email out to
> the information in our
> > database? And if so, is there any way of having it embed anything so we
> can tell when someone opens
> > the email and when they click on various links and such?
> >
> > Or if anyone knows of any other pgoram to use that can do this, that'd
be
> great.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
>

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