On Jan 31, 2005, at 12:06 PM, Dan Covill wrote:
> Now there's a reassuring thought! The spammers are now selling
> spyware!
Always have.
Spammers, perhaps, but companies with "legitimate" email marketing
campaigns send out HTML emails with links to images that call back to
the mothership to confirm the mail has been opened, and links encoded
individually for each email to match against the users. Years ago, when
I was working for an online company, we looked into buying into one of
these systems to contact likely prospects (QA people in the Fortune
5000) with promotions about our software. While it was supposedly
one-time, opt-in, I was never comfortable with the idea.
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com
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