On 2/17/25 9:58 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Feb 17, 2025 at 09:40:31 -0600, David Wright wrote:
I do that with lynx -localhost. One consequence is regular
communications (sometimes by email!) from some banks etc,
complaining that you don't open their emails. Some are so
stupid as to offer no way of denying that fact electronically.
You may also get unsubscribed from email circulars that you
subscribed to.
Yes. I ran into this issue myself, with a mailing list that I had
subscribed to. That list is run by Mailchimp, and they send multipart
HTML/text messages, with tracking image URLs in the HTML part. If
you only read the text part, they never receive their tracking info,
and after some unspecified time period, they conclude that you aren't
reading their messages. Then they silently unsubscribe you *AND*
blacklist your email address so that you can't re-subscribe after you
figure out what the problem is.
So, now that I've re-subscribed under a new email address, I make an
effort to copy the HTML part back to my desktop PC and open it in a
web browser, to make sure they know I'm reading it. Pain in the ass,
is what it is.
Did you tell the "offending" originator of the problem?
Since the originator is in business to make money tell them they are
wasting bandwidth {i.e. *DOLLARS* spent} and annoying potential
customers {i.e. unrealized *DOLLARS* due to lost sales}.
