[LINK] Request to Qantas to Keep Offering Plain Text Email
Karl Auer
kauer at biplane.com.au
Thu Nov 8 16:43:11 AEDT 2012
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 16:34 +1100, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> I hate to admit this, but the move to HTML doesn't bother me in the
> slightest. I don't even care if they track my reading of the message.
Your choices. It doesn't mean diddly in any rational public policy
debate, any more than my preference would.
> It's simply a sign of the times
Any dictatorship could say the same thing. Seriously Ivan, this is weird
coming from you.
> Marketing communications are here to stay
Communication is one thing. If they communicated, we'd all be a lot
happier and safer. But it's not communication. It's exploitation on the
back of deception.
> Such is life.
You DO recall who most famously said that, and under what circumstances,
don't you?
Regards, K.
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