Recently I got an email from Tor. Apparently they’re watching their opens and clicks and they noticed I hadn’t loaded any images recently.
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I like the Tor newsletter, and I do open and read it. But my mail client is not configured to load images, and Tor’s newsletter is readable without images on. I’m always reassured, though, when I see companies acting on best practices in the wild.
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Nice to see.
It is nice to see companies reconfirming email addresses that don’t appear to be actively reading their emails. I don’t usually see reconfirmations sent to my personal accounts because I so rarely subscribe to marketing email. But I *do* notice it — to my spamtraps. 🙂 Needless to say, the companies that reconfirm and then disappear from spamtrap collections end up with a lot fewer deliverability issue.
“Still interested in receiving HP communications?”
“Keep your HP products up-to-date
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I gave them my email address when they demanded it in exchange for current drivers for my work desktop. And then I proceeded to not interact with them at all for about five years.
Recently, I bought an HP all-in-one scanner/copier/printer (mostly because I needed one, and it was on sale for the same price as the ink that’s in it) but I haven’t registered it with them, because I’m not sure I want another five years of marketing cheese.