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Re:The Art of Pitching: How I Got Published in The Atlantic by chinathrow on Friday January 06, 2017 @03:55PM (#13340101)
> (that gets opened everytime)

If I were an editor, I would simply blackhole all personal mails which include tracking pixels.

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Re:The Art of Pitching: How I Got Published in The Atlantic by hawkice on Friday January 06, 2017 @05:17PM (#13340817)
I've thrown people in the spam filter for a lot less. "re: twitter" as a subject line is even more objectionable to my personal tastes -- but I dislike journalists who are intentionally trying to mislead their audience, even in an email subject.
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Re:The Art of Pitching: How I Got Published in The Atlantic by nthnclrk on Friday January 06, 2017 @07:06PM (#13341507)
Confused as to why there is any objection to this. He stated that it'll typically get a reply that includes their email, and he is simply creating context within the subject line – this advantageous for the receiver.

If it were me (and I had indeed shared my email to the person reaching out on Twitter) I'd appreciate the reminder of how/why they are reaching out on email.

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