Re Monitoring of the news letters, I assume you want to know if they are being read, and how many times. There was on old trick which many companies use quietly. They embed a html code in the email, which required the email to contact the server to fetch an image. Most of the time, the image is itself invisible, so the user has no idea of it. The server can keep count of how many times the image has been asked for (and perhaps by which machine / ip).
The reason it is not effective in India is most of us are on dialup lines and are not connected to the net when we read the mail. But with more people having always-on connections, things are changing. Also, many users would be using cybercafes to read mails. In both cases, when you open the newsletter, it will automatically connect to the webserver asking of the image.
Remember to keeep a different image file for each new newsletter so that you can count properly
And, sorry, but I dont know how to actually do the above, I only know that it is being done by many companies.
Regards Saswata ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vishwanath V" thelinuxguyis@yahoo.co.in To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 6:55 AM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Can somebody help me in newsletters ?
Hi luggers, Can anybody suggest me a appication for sendind newsletters to huge no of mail id's and monitor the activity of newsletters ?
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