Show HN: Email open rates are stupid.
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Show HN: Email open rates are stupid.
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#2How do they determine engagement time or whether the email was deleted?
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#3I need something like this. Great idea! Run with it!
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#4I need something like this. Great idea! Run with it!
Thanks! Let me know what you think. aarlo@mirapost.com
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#5How do they determine engagement time or whether the email was deleted?
We have a special tracking code that figures it out over the email clients' use of HTTP and with some fancy server-side node/mongodb stuff.
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#6How do they determine engagement time or whether the email was deleted?
I have no idea (didn't find out from a quick browse through the site), but the first thing that came to mind was an image in the mail, pointing to a server that slowly trickles a response without ever finishing so it can measure how long the other end is listening.
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#7How do they determine engagement time or whether the email was deleted?
We have a special tracking code that figures it out over the email clients' use of HTTP and with some fancy server-side node/mongodb stuff.
Bullshit. There's not a single major client that executes code from emails.
You might be able to have some link back to your server, but even those are blocked by default.
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#8I'll be grumpy and say I'm surprised of how fast it reached first position on HN. However, I have to agree that there's a huge difference between deleting an email and opening it :p Great idea, good luck with it.
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#9Lies. There's no way to determine if an email got deleted (unless you somehow buy data from GMail, hotmail, yahoo mail, etc).
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#10How do they determine engagement time or whether the email was deleted?
I have no idea (didn't find out from a quick browse through the site), but the first thing that came to mind was an image in the mail, pointing to a server that slowly trickles a response without ever finishing so it can measure how long the other end is listening.
Pretty genius idea but easy to replicate by the big boys..