Comments on: Web bug & ReadNotify.com: Don’t bother to notify me

By: Bocker

Bocker — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:46:39 +0000

Thanx for lettin us know, know we can block that one too!

By: Darrell M. Lee

Darrell M. Lee — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:26:11 +0000

If those folks with Outlook 2003 have problems, it’s about time they upgraded!!! For me, for many months, I have been using “read.notify.com” and it is very succesful. I’m an insurance adjuster, and I like proof that my e-mail was sent and received and read and/or forwarded. DMLee

By: bond

bond — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:14:11 +0000

how about spypig.com? is it better than readnotify.com? at least it’s free.

By: Nahla

Nahla — Thu, 31 May 2007 03:05:58 +0000

I have been using Readnotify for 4 years. It worked great except for 2 years ago. OUtlook and outlook express detect the image, and so it warns the reader and they can block the image and no tracking is then provided. Furthermore, with outlook a person does not need to even open the email if they have a preview pane open they need not double click the email. Readnotify is not worth it anymore at all. If anyone knows of a better tracking service please let me know.

By: Stas

Stas — Sun, 06 May 2007 21:35:20 +0000

Hmm, I thought they would employ something more sophisticated. By the way, isn’t the base64 encoding is the favorite vehicle of scam mails? A lot of anti-scam measures are built these days into mail clients, which can start triggering alarms on emails sent via readnotify service.

By: Waitman Gobble

Waitman Gobble — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:11:37 +0000

Hi everyone,

Don’t forget about Thunderbird’s reply and forward bug, if you reply or forward a message it will automagically fetch all the external images (and sounds) without asking you, even if you tell it never to do so by default.

best bet is to nullify readnotify.com in DNS and set a null route on your router.

I just received one the other day and they’re base64 encoding the source so you’ve got to decode it first if you wanna check out the source.

take care,

Waitman

By: Franco

Franco — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:59:14 +0000

Do not forget the many people using YPOPS to get their yahoo email onto their Outlook 2003. Most / all are default to blocking images or code.

By: Alex Le

Alex Le — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:52:07 +0000

@Ume Kichi,

Thank you for the insight. I didn’t follow the deatils of the incident too much but it’s indeed an interesting case. Was that how HP was discovered and subsequently got into the scandal?

By: Ume Kichi

Ume Kichi — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:38:55 +0000

> I’m not entirely sure how effective the chairman
> of HP was able to use Readnotify.com to track
> her board members’ communications

They sent it to Dawn Kawamoto at CNET who was covering HP. But Dawn is also CNET’s Security Correspondent.

By: Alex Le

Alex Le — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:44:14 +0000

The guys at Readnotify.com are pretty sneaky and sharp too. As the HP’s scandal was unfolding, the term “pattymail” was being coined, Readnotify.com registered the domain pattymail.com right away on Oct 13, 2006. (http://whois.domaintools.com/pattymail.com)

Good move!