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It's quite the juxtaposition seeing your post right next to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26163842

As someone with a daily email "newsletter" of my own [1], I am aware of (many of) the vagaries of spam filters. I use plain text only, though, so I couldn't use tracking pixels even if I wanted to. I do unsubscribe users if messages start bouncing but I have no way of knowing if they get silently dropped or spamfoldered.

As someone who subscribes to lots of newsletters, the "interact or we will auto-unsubscribe you" thing still annoys me.

[1]: https://www.aphorismsgalore.com/daily

> I do unsubscribe users if messages start bouncing but I have no way of knowing if they get silently dropped or spamfoldered.

IF you get spamfoldered by enough people the provider will just start sending to the spam folder for everyone. Your newsletter is now useless

And on top of that, some mail providers like Gmail won't even tell you this is happening. I understand why they don't but it's really difficult if you're a small time newsletter trying to get off the ground.

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