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Episode: 2289
Title: HPR2289: Sendy Send. Tell if your email has been read!!
Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2289/hpr2289.mp3
Transcribed: 2025-10-19 00:54:51

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This is HBR episode 2,289 entitled, Send Is End.
Tell if your email has been read exclamation.
It is posted by SIGFLOB and in about 5 minutes long and carry my clean flag.
The summary is SIGFLOB announced in Send Is End,
which is a mechanism to tell if people read your email.
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Hello everyone, SIGFLOB is in the slobble here.
This is a new addition of Packer Public Radio.
I'm sitting here on my stoop outside,
waiting for the tacos to get done.
They'll be done soon, that'll be great.
What this episode is about is I,
I was listening to HBR community news.
They mentioned a website or a service rather,
where you can tell when people read your email.
I forget what this was and where it was from,
but it struck me as very clever.
I thought I'd implement my own sort of thing about seeing if people read your email.
The concept is pretty simple.
It's a bit of code you put on the footer of your email,
provided that the email client that they have renders HTML.
This works with Gmail as well.
I'll tell you how it works with Gmail.
So, yeah, so I put up this website called ss.via.org.
I'm sorry, ss.via.com.
That's in the show notes.
It's a website implementing this.
And it's called sendy send.
So ss sendy send.
You click on generate footer.
That generates a bit of code to put in the bottom of your emails.
Provided that you have a client that renders HTML.
Or in the case of Gmail, what you do is you copy paste the URL for the image.
There's a URL for an image.
And you go to insert image on Gmail and put it in there.
And it will tell that it was read in the preview of your email.
So you want to check it twice if you know the other person is using Gmail.
Aside from that, that's the only weird thing about it.
Aside from that, it works perfectly fine.
It's off the mechanism that an HTML compliant renders a little HTML,
which touches an image.
This image is a blank image.
It's just called blank.png.
And it has an argument with it.
And the argument is the code.
So again, when you click putter, you get that and a little code.
Then you go to the website again.
You go to check code and you insert that code.
And then all the time the email has been read or not.
So I'm hoping that the hacker community finds this useful.
And give me some feedback.
Tell me if it doesn't work.
And yeah.
So, you know, the first place I've noticed that really does this is the Facebook.
They have their own mechanisms, right?
But they tell you if something's been read or is being people have seen it and stuff like that.
And I thought that was kind of cool, right?
And so I'm glad that we can do that with the email as well.
So I'm going to continue making the tacos.
And we'll talk to you all later.
Thanks for listening.
Bye-bye.
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