[buug] Fwd: Pearson Education User Group Program Newsletters -- January/February/March 2010

[Michael Paoli]

Well, ... they switched from sending (non-default, specifically set by
option) plain text to HTML again ... and effectively not including plain
text.  Sure, they use
Content-Type: multipart/alternative
but the body of the
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ascii
section is blank, and the HTML version they include is designed to track
individual subscriber/referral clicks, etc. on essentially every URL.
It's also far too easy to take those URLs and know how to construct
change preferences / unsubscribe URL from them.  Well, actually looks
like they changed preference setting on me again, back to HTML ... I've
set it back to Text again ... so maybe next time they'll actually sent
plain text and not so quickly revert it to HTML again.  Anyway, in the
meantime I found HTML versions online:
http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/imprint_downloads/informit/usergroups/InformIT_UG
Newsletter_Jan10.html
http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/imprint_downloads/informit/usergroups/InformIT_UG
Newsletter_Feb10.html
http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/imprint_downloads/informit/usergroups/InformIT_UG
Newsletter_Mar10.html

references/excerpts:

Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:40:01 -0800
From: InformIT <usergroups at informit.com>
Subject: Pearson Education User Group Program Newsletter -- January 2010

Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:52:26 -0800
From: InformIT <usergroups at informit.com>
Subject: Pearson Education User Group Program Newsletter -- February 2010

Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:07:45 -0800
From: InformIT <usergroups at informit.com>
Subject: Pearson Education User Group Program Newsletter -- March 2010