nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
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Alexandria, VA
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| What I Particularly Dislike Is...
All other issues aside, the fact that email sent to me via their subscribers has to transit their mail system. That means, if they want to (and this would definitely help them support their service), they could gather lists of "known good" email addresses and sell them to SPAMmers. Even worse, since the mail has to go through their systems, they could retain copies, eventually alter emails by adding targeted marketing based on message content (a la GMail), or worse.
Nosir, I don't like it. It would almost have been better had this only been some kind of mail client plug-in. That way, it could locally alter the message, putting the tracking bugs in before sending, rather than having to pass through their servers. As it is, even if my mail client defeats their tracking bugs, an AWFUL lot of other information is still in their hands.
-tom
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