tor.com has officially been creepy

[sraun]

I just got an e-mail from "Tor.com" <tordotcom@mail.macmillan.com> - part of it says:

Don't Worry: We're Not Robots, and We Don't Want to Spam You.

We notice you haven't opened the Tor.com newsletter in a while, and that's okay: we know you're busy. That's why we create our newsletter from scratch each week, to highlight the articles we think you'll love and round up some of our top stories.

I sent them the following reply:

You have officially been creepy.

I read this newsletter every time it shows up in my Inbox. I read it in mutt, a text-only e-mail client, I never open the links from the e-mail, no images or other links that might be followed if it were opened in an HTML capable e-mail client are ever followed. If I've missed something, I go find it manually in my browser.

So, no, you're never going to see that I have opened this e-mail newsletter.