Receive an email from VASST with the subject line: Save Big at NAB 2011
As this is a message in which I'd have an interest, I opened it to have a look. Unfortunately, the email client that I use to receive messages from VASST does not properly display messages with HTML content, so I had to click on the embedded link to display the message in my browser. To my surprise, the supplied link took me to the Harbor Freight tools website!
Puzzled, I copied the link and inserted it directly in my web browser, and had the same result. Next, I opened the message in "raw view" that lets me see the entire email in ascii format, and verified that the link is the same as what appears in the browser url bar.
Here's a slightly modified version of the link that appears, with carets changed to brackets to prevent the forum software from considering it to be a link, and with the domain name omitted from my email address:
[a href=3D"/Tools/BulkEmailer/tabid/106/ctl/EmailTracking/mid/433/Default.aspx?linkID=3D560&email=3Dcbrillow@xxxxx.com"]
I tried forwarding it to my Gmail address, because Gmail will properly display the HTML, but the message never makes it there. I suspect it's being trapped as spam at my domain's mail server.
Weird...
As this is a message in which I'd have an interest, I opened it to have a look. Unfortunately, the email client that I use to receive messages from VASST does not properly display messages with HTML content, so I had to click on the embedded link to display the message in my browser. To my surprise, the supplied link took me to the Harbor Freight tools website!
Puzzled, I copied the link and inserted it directly in my web browser, and had the same result. Next, I opened the message in "raw view" that lets me see the entire email in ascii format, and verified that the link is the same as what appears in the browser url bar.
Here's a slightly modified version of the link that appears, with carets changed to brackets to prevent the forum software from considering it to be a link, and with the domain name omitted from my email address:
[a href=3D"/Tools/BulkEmailer/tabid/106/ctl/EmailTracking/mid/433/Default.aspx?linkID=3D560&email=3Dcbrillow@xxxxx.com"]
I tried forwarding it to my Gmail address, because Gmail will properly display the HTML, but the message never makes it there. I suspect it's being trapped as spam at my domain's mail server.
Weird...