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 11:11:44 -0600

Steve, this is all pretty confusing to me. As I said, we're not spammers.
bCentral's List Builder (as I understand it) will allow us to send out email
newsletters to customers that sign up at our site. Once they receive an
email they can unsubscribe with one click and that's the end of them
receiving any newsletters from us. That's what we want.

However, the idea of being able to track which visitors actually opened the
email and then clicked on any links is valuable information to us. We don't
want (or need) any information about WHO actually opened the email or
clicked on a link. What we want are the aggreate numbers so we can see if an
idea (promotion) is working, and which one works best. Is this considered
unethical? Is there a better way? Thanks.
"Steve Easton" <admin@95isalive.com> wrote in message
news:u%23epO9U$DHA.212@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> The "opt in" bulk email news letter part is fine.
> The read receipt part for the email is also fine. ( although I turn the
> feature off in my machines )
>
> If the newsletter is server based and going to be viewed on your server by
> the visitor opening a link to a web page, then there is no problem with
> tracking clicked links.
>
>
> However, if you mean tracking links in an email that is opened in a client
> machine, the only way to get a report of which link is clicked in an
email
> is for the client machine to send a report back to your server in some
shape
> or form. Since this report will have to be generated in and sent from the
> machine that is viewing the email, it will almost certainly give a
firewall
> alert that Outlook Express is trying to connect to the internet. This will
> most likely get the privacy advocates and the spyware people up in arms,
not
> to mention "alienate" the person reading the email
>
> Tracking links in an email viewed in a client machine is how I understood
> your original post, hence my initial response
>
> --
> Steve Easton
> Microsoft MVP FrontPage
> 95isalive
> This site is best viewed..................
> ..............................with a computer
>
> "johnny" <johnny@nothere.com> wrote in message
> news:u2kEPmU$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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