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Episode: 2289
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Title: HPR2289: Sendy Send. Tell if your email has been read!!
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2289/hpr2289.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 00:54:51
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This is HBR episode 2,289 entitled, Send Is End.
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Tell if your email has been read exclamation.
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It is posted by SIGFLOB and in about 5 minutes long and carry my clean flag.
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The summary is SIGFLOB announced in Send Is End,
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which is a mechanism to tell if people read your email.
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Music
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Hello everyone, SIGFLOB is in the slobble here.
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This is a new addition of Packer Public Radio.
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I'm sitting here on my stoop outside,
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waiting for the tacos to get done.
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They'll be done soon, that'll be great.
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What this episode is about is I,
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I was listening to HBR community news.
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They mentioned a website or a service rather,
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where you can tell when people read your email.
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I forget what this was and where it was from,
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but it struck me as very clever.
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I thought I'd implement my own sort of thing about seeing if people read your email.
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The concept is pretty simple.
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It's a bit of code you put on the footer of your email,
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provided that the email client that they have renders HTML.
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This works with Gmail as well.
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I'll tell you how it works with Gmail.
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So, yeah, so I put up this website called ss.via.org.
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I'm sorry, ss.via.com.
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That's in the show notes.
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It's a website implementing this.
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And it's called sendy send.
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So ss sendy send.
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You click on generate footer.
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That generates a bit of code to put in the bottom of your emails.
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Provided that you have a client that renders HTML.
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Or in the case of Gmail, what you do is you copy paste the URL for the image.
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There's a URL for an image.
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And you go to insert image on Gmail and put it in there.
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And it will tell that it was read in the preview of your email.
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So you want to check it twice if you know the other person is using Gmail.
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Aside from that, that's the only weird thing about it.
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Aside from that, it works perfectly fine.
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It's off the mechanism that an HTML compliant renders a little HTML,
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which touches an image.
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This image is a blank image.
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It's just called blank.png.
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And it has an argument with it.
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And the argument is the code.
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So again, when you click putter, you get that and a little code.
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Then you go to the website again.
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You go to check code and you insert that code.
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And then all the time the email has been read or not.
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So I'm hoping that the hacker community finds this useful.
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And give me some feedback.
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Tell me if it doesn't work.
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And yeah.
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So, you know, the first place I've noticed that really does this is the Facebook.
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They have their own mechanisms, right?
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But they tell you if something's been read or is being people have seen it and stuff like that.
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And I thought that was kind of cool, right?
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And so I'm glad that we can do that with the email as well.
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So I'm going to continue making the tacos.
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And we'll talk to you all later.
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Thanks for listening.
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Bye-bye.
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