Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't email have a function so senders can ...
by cail on Monday January 21, 2013 @08:13PM
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Technical issues aside, the way AOL implemented poses some issues from SPAM I think.
With AOL I could check and if I can't unsend I know they opened the email. If this worked across all email and I wanted to use email for nefarious purposes I could use this to see, with great accuracy, exactly which email address that I've sent to were active and opened the message. I can then target these accounts more.
With AOL I could check and if I can't unsend I know they opened the email. If this worked across all email and I wanted to use email for nefarious purposes I could use this to see, with great accuracy, exactly which email address that I've sent to were active and opened the message. I can then target these accounts more.
I feel like this could be a horrible idea.