Evgeny Kuznetsov practices with Bauer stick that has hole in the blade

Re:Evgeny Kuznetsov practices with Bauer stick that has hole... by pencerw on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @04:33PM (#24275775)

You're looking at The Prepared (theprepared.org/newsletter), a weekly newsletter about manufacturing and other stuff! It's sent via Mailchimp, which automatically creates an archive URL for every email campaign you send.

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Re:Evgeny Kuznetsov practices with Bauer stick that has hole... by LeifCarrotson on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @04:43PM (#24275855)

I've set up MailChimp campaigns several times - traditional sales lists, transactional stuff, software update notifications - and never thought of using it as a hosted/linkable newsletter.

The "view this in your browser" link was always personalized for tracking, not semantic, IIRC. It did include the actual content of "Hello, {first name} {last name}!" tags, which obviously wouldn't work here for every unique reader.

How long does this stick around? As long as you have a MailChimp account?

I guess I assumed that the URL was unique per-user and would be deleted after 30 days, because the primary use case of Mailchimp seems to be not-quite-spam "We're having a sale!" bulk campaigns.

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Re:Evgeny Kuznetsov practices with Bauer stick that has hole... by jonathanliu on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @04:46PM (#24275901)

A lot of people use substack now because it's easier, but I still use mailchimp for my newsletter.

I guess I just like being different.

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