Re: [Full-disclosure] Testing DidTheyReadIt.com

Test

On 9/29/07, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:15:09 +0200, Thierry Zoller said:
>
> > Just a sample test of how many of you read this email. Let's see how
> > good it performs for mailinglists and what comes out.
>
> What you're getting isn't a test of how many people read the mail. What you
> got was a count of people who read the mail in MUAs that don't protect
> against
> web bugs.
>
> It's also possible that some small percentage of people are using MUAs that
> will pre-fetch the linked files, but then the user discards the mail unread
> (I don't know any offhand that do this, but there *was* the brou-ha-ha a
> while
> back about certain browsers that would prefetch linked pages from Google
> searches even if the user didn't visit them, causing lots of hits to links
> that the user may not even have realized happened, so it's certainly well
> within the realm of possibility).


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