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1. this page intentionally left (taiganaut@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2017 21:36:47 EST this page intentionally left
   Does anyone sign up for email newsletters & *actually read them*? It's just not a delivery mechanism that works for me for bloggish content
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2017 22:29:03 EST lnxw48a1

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      @taiganaut I signed up for one site's near-daily mail several years back. When I finally checked my mail, I had almost two years of backlog. I did not bother trying to read it all, just cancelled my subscription and deleted all the messages.
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2017 22:53:04 EST lnxw48a1

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         @taiganaut Same thing for sites that think they can drop RSS/Atom in favor of posting on FB/Twitter: even if I was using that site, if I'm not watching when your post comes past, I'm not going to scroll back to see it. Also, users on those sites are bombarded with links and article fragments, I expect they are a lot less likely to go read an article.
         1. this page intentionally left (taiganaut@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2017 01:04:32 EST this page intentionally left

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            @lnxw48a1 yup. I'm not on twitter and I don't interact with "brands" on FB. Sigh, we're like 0.2% of the ecosystem, aren't we.
   2. Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2017 00:35:03 EST Bob Jonkman

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      The worst thing about reading email newsletters in text/plain mode are the obfuscated, surveillance-infested URL links that make the actual content impossible to read. I think I've just convinced myself to unsubscribe from them all. @taiganaut