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Message-ID: <8a6b8e350709292237t40e560f1k4c738148dcd2c5a5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:37:25 -0700 From: "James Matthews" <nytrokiss@...il.com> To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk Subject: Re: Testing DidTheyReadIt.com Test On 9/29/07, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@...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). > -- http://www.goldwatches.com/mens/cufflinks.html http://www.jewelerslounge.com _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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