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rb808 on Oct 15, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: The trouble with text-only email

They could send a personalized mail every year saying - "if you still want to continue to receive these mails", click here.

jordanlev on Oct 15, 2017 [–]

The conclusion of the article states that this is what they did.

dingo_bat on Oct 16, 2017 | [–]

I don't know why this wasn't the first option instead of tracking users without permission? This seems easier to implement, privacy-aware and even seems to more explicitly indicate the users intent to keep receiving emails.

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