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Re:Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on ... by asdf3 on Thursday December 12, 2013 @05:25PM (#6897706)
Why aren't you asking for read-receipts if that's what's desired? If it's because people wouldn't send them, shouldn't that be their choice?
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Re:Gmail blows up e-mail marketing by caching all images on ... by gohrt on Friday December 13, 2013 @12:00AM (#6899160)
The vast majority of people don't care at all about read receipts.

Marketers don't care who _isn't_ reading their mail, they care how to send mail that more people will read.

Who subscribes to a direct email campaign (and doesn't unsubscribe, and doesn't flag as spam), and is still offended by the thought of the sender knowing it was read?

Those people can flip the setting back to prompt-to-show-images.

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