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

From: Steve Easton (admin_at_95isalive.com)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:31:02 -0500

The "opt in" bulk email news letter part is fine.
The read receipt part for the email is also fine. ( although I turn the
feature off in my machines )

If the newsletter is server based and going to be viewed on your server by
the visitor opening a link to a web page, then there is no problem with
tracking clicked links.

However, if you mean tracking links in an email that is opened in a client
machine, the only way to get a report of which link is clicked in an email
is for the client machine to send a report back to your server in some shape
or form. Since this report will have to be generated in and sent from the
machine that is viewing the email, it will almost certainly give a firewall
alert that Outlook Express is trying to connect to the internet. This will
most likely get the privacy advocates and the spyware people up in arms, not
to mention "alienate" the person reading the email

Tracking links in an email viewed in a client machine is how I understood
your original post, hence my initial response 

-- 
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
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"johnny" <johnny@nothere.com> wrote in message
news:u2kEPmU$DHA.3120@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> I really don't know what you mean here. You said, "Links in an email
> that attempt to "Phone Home" when clicked are going to have firewall
alerts
> popping up like crazy."
>
> Our company is thinking of using bCentral's List Builder to send out a
> newsletter. We are not spammers. We (I) liked it because it is an opt-in
and
> very easy opt-out mailer. It also (I think) gives us the ability to see,
via
> a report back to us, who received the newsletter and who also actually
> clicked on any link. We don't want to cause any trouble for our customers.
> Will it, or any newsletter that does reporting of any kind, cause firewall
> alerts to go off? By just happening to see your reply you may have saved
me
> a lot of grief!
>
> "Steve Easton" <admin@95isalive.com> wrote in message
> news:e7qI4AU$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>
> >
> > -- 
> > Steve Easton
> > Microsoft MVP FrontPage
> > 95isalive
> > This site is best viewed..................
> > ..............................with a computer
> >
> > "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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