On Apr 21, 2019, at 4:21 PM, Michael Rathbun <m...@honet.com> wrote: > > o your customers (the advertisers) pay you to have warm bodies look at their > adverts. Folks who never log in don't look at diddly. > > o The vast majority of accounts that have not engaged in the past 180 days > are abandoned, and represent costs from which no benefit can ever accrue. > > If a tiny number of folks don't want open tracking (or, as in my case, hardly > ever load images), then they can remember to engage somehow every few months, > or, optionally, get stuffed if the mail was something they want. You (the > provider) don't care -- REMEMBER: those folks are the product, not the > customer.
I'd just like to point out that there are some - perhaps not many, but some - of us who deliver mail where the subscriber most certainly is the customer. My list server at corvair.org was paid for entirely by individual subscribers, and the ongoing maintenance is funded by the club. --Bryan _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
