Chris Santerre wrote on Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:14:13 -0400:

> So your saying the cost of email marketing would rise.

Chris, I did't think about email at all ;-) Maybe I'm wrong and the use of 
this redirector is mostly for email. I thought of it as a central tracker 
which gets launched when someone clicks a banner ad or similar in a web 
page. There can be several reasons why you can't put this on the source or 
target server, but need an "intermediary". It seems to me that the use for 
email is quite marginal because you can't track opening a message this 
way, you can only use it in the same way as for web pages. And that's what 
these spammers do, they try to disguise the real URL. But why? Users won't 
examine the URL before they click it and most spam processors should know 
how to get the target hostname.

Kai

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