My mailbox is stuffed with megabytes of unwanted HTML gibberish thanks
to an "email marketing" mailer called Mailchimp. And indeed, it seems
to have been programmed by an ape.
This isn't spam per se. It's stuff I requested, or at least sort of requested, but I certainly didn't ask that even the simplest and most straightforward messages be accompanied by a retinue of literally
thousands of angle brackets, ampersands, JavaScript codes, and
hundreds of incomprehensible header lines.
I got one from Balticon on the 10th, one from FANAC on the 17th, two
from Chicon on the 17th (the second 1600 lines were because the time
zone was wrong in the first email; they're otherwise identical),
another from Balticon on the 18th, and yet another from Balticon on
the 19th. The last one -- a mere 422 lines -- was to correct a bad single-line URL in the previous email.
Can anyone think of a reason not to block all of them? And does
anyone know of a contact at Chicon who can switch me to plain text
email? Thanks.
Reading email as plain text, which you do, defeats all or nearly all
attempt to monitor your reading. As you note, though, the plain
text versions can be messy to read.
Most mail clients won't run JavaScript, so I'm surprised Mailchimp
uses it.
I understand why marketers, including ones that have the recipient's permission, want to snoop on their subscribers' reading habits. I
don't understand why fannish organizations use Mailchimp.
If you don't want to run your own list server, there are plenty of
options that respect privacy. I've set up lists on groups.io for a
personal mailing list and for a discussion group.
Nobody can decide for you whether Mailchimp is worth the annoyance.
If it isn't, you should be able to get yourself removed from those
lists without having to block them.
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as being a typical apostrophe?
"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
And =C3=83=C2=83=C3=82=C2=83=C3=83=C2=82=C3=82=C2=A2=C3=83=C2=83=C3
=82=C2=A2=C3=83=C2=82=C3=82=C2=82=C3=83=C2=82=C3=82=C2=AC=C3=83=C2=
83=C3=82=C2=A2=C3=83=C2=82=C3=82=C2=84=C3=83=C2=82=C3=82=C2=A2
as being a typical apostrophe?
All of that is for one apostrophe?!
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