> Several weeks ago Politico wrote-and-said because I am not opening > their mailings, they are going to free up space in my inbox. [...]
> So we subscribed again to several of these, but this seems to happen > from time2time. Many times I click through article or video links, > so how can they say I am not opening their news-letters? Thanks so > much in advance for your analysis. I'd have to get a copy of one of their mailings and dig through it in detail to say anything with any real degree of confidence. But my guess is that they have some kind of bug which isn't getting tripped by the way you're reading them. The classic example is a 1x1 transparent GIF fetched from a URL that has some kind of recipient identifier mebedded in it, but there are lots of other possible ways to do that sort of thing. It's a classic mistake: a sender assuming that the recipient's software will do what they want it to merely because they've tried to ask it to. I wrote about (a different form of) this in my blah back on 2009-11-28; see http://ftp.rodents-montreal.org/mouse/blah/2009-11-28-1.html for that post. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
