Fake Image using .aspx url to track email views in Outlook, doesn't work!

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Published on 2010-04-15T20:26:37Z Indexed on 2010/04/15 20:33 UTC
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I have this in my HTML email to track if someone views the email in say Outlook.

<img src="http://www.example.com/track.ashx?user=3434" />

but this doesn't seem to work.

Should I change my headers in the .ashx to server image headers? (if there are any?)

Can this work using this method?

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