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   Message 136,103 of 137,311   
   Keith F. Lynch to Gary McGath   
   Re: Ansible 444 -- July 2024   
   01 Jul 24 20:50:52   
   
   From: kfl@KeithLynch.net   
      
   Gary McGath  wrote:   
   > This is a universal problem with mailing list services these days.   
   > They include an image element just so the sender will be pinged   
   > every time someone opens a message.  The links all contain   
   > personalized tracking information. In many cases they don't even   
   > go to the alleged destination, but to a URL that may, if it feels   
   > like it, redirect you there after sucking out all the personalized   
   > information, or could take you somewhere else for all you know.   
      
   I recently learned that I should have been receiving emails from the   
   NASFiC.  It turns out that for some incomprehensible reason they   
   were sending via the spam site mailchimp, so the emails were of   
   course all blocked.   
   --   
   Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/   
   Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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