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- Sometimes a simple cartoon conveys a message better than pages of words can. I encourage you to forward it to any of your contacts you feel might appreciate it. The more our point of view gets out, the better.
- It would be a big help to know the true number of how many people read weekly email.
If you are forwarding it and your contacts do like the content,
I'd appreciate it if you ask them to subscribe directly to the list via the:
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How To Avoid Being "UnSubscribed" From Weekly Cartoons & More
Mail systems such as the one I use, MailChimp, are typically used for marketing purposes, (although my weekly rant is a labor of love for me & I derive no financial gain from it). To allow a marketer to gauge the effectiveness of their campaigns, each email contains indicators identifying the recipient & a mechanism to know when they've opened it & if they clicked any of the links. They also contain links allowing the recipient to unsubscribe from the distribution list.
When someone forwards the email to their contacts, it still contains the identifiers of the ORIGINAL recipient. Thus, if one of these contacts clicks the Unsubscribe link, they've just removed the person who forwarded it to them, from the list. The same applies if any of them, in turn, forwards it to their friends, etc. I found this out when my own mother was unintentionally unsubscribed from my distribution list in this exact fashion.
Once a person has unsubscribed, I cannot add them back to the list, only he or she can do that.
To prevent this from happening to you, you should remove the:
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links from the bottom of the email before forwarding it to anyone.
Sometimes the email runs long and the email is truncated. In these cases you may not see the unsubscribe link at the bottom unless you do whatever your email system provides for you to see the entire message in these cases.
In Gmail, you'll see something like: [Message clipped] View entire message
I hope you enjoy and find my weekly efforts valuable.
In Liberty, John