Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix1.panix.com!not-for-mail From: "Keith F. Lynch" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: Ansible 444 -- July 2024 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 20:50:52 -0000 (UTC) Organization: United Individualist Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 20:50:52 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix1.panix.com:166.84.1.1"; logging-data="12232"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 1554 Lines: 15 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.