Comment Re:One spam story (Score 1) 280
Addressing your last paragraph regarding webbugs, I disagree that everyone should use mailer agents that disable network access or refuse to display html. I work for a company and one recent project was to develop an email marketing system. Now all relax i'm not one of the bad guys, we cater to strictly non-profit organizations, no penis pumps or anything.
Anyway our tool is designed for mailing lists rather than spamming, basically opt-in lists. We have the ability to track who opened each message, and its very useful because certain messages regarding events or functions should be publicized to all members of the list. The idea is anyone who did not open gets a mailing in the mail or phone call regarding the event, and if we didn't have the ability to accurately track these stats our clients would make tons of redundant phone calls.
Our clients' lists never really go over 1 - 2000 members, so its definetly not spamming by any sense of the word. I'm just making a point on the usefulness of the ability to track certain key data.
-Mike
Anyway our tool is designed for mailing lists rather than spamming, basically opt-in lists. We have the ability to track who opened each message, and its very useful because certain messages regarding events or functions should be publicized to all members of the list. The idea is anyone who did not open gets a mailing in the mail or phone call regarding the event, and if we didn't have the ability to accurately track these stats our clients would make tons of redundant phone calls.
Our clients' lists never really go over 1 - 2000 members, so its definetly not spamming by any sense of the word. I'm just making a point on the usefulness of the ability to track certain key data.
-Mike
