-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 17:27 02/01/01, Herzog, Ari wrote: >Related, we are currently working on a more professional e-newsletter >with a third-party company. They have a feature where the welcome message >is text and includes a graphic that can "sense" whether the client is >html-enabled. The graphic is invisible and when the message is read, >the graphic sends a response to a remote database. Clever. Yup - the old single pixel thing. Remember, though, you absolutely *must* give the user choice once you've evaluated their capabilities. And the better way to do it is to make it opt-in. More on why in Seth Godin's "Permission Marketing": http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684856360/martin043 or <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684856360/qid=963909054/sr=1-25/002-0820512-7116863> Cheers Martin ________________ Martin Burns, Content Management Consultant tel: +44 (0)774 063 9985 http://www.evolt.org/user/MartinB/32/evolt.org http://www.easyweb.co.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> Comment: PGP Key ID: 0xA835CCCB iQA/AwUBOlMuSnHoHnCoNczLEQJ9PwCg7wJP1WBbZ9F14igGR2/nG892TBsAoL9H S4czZJNNxmJAOeN8YLH98rIN =AqWW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----