I just received the email to prompt signup for the newsletter. I have to say that the choice of font in the newsletter - which had a look very different than any other Carbide postings, and the use of the “trk.klclick.com/ls/click” URLs made it look a lot like a phishing attempt. I did not click anything.
I ended up going to https://www.carbide3d.com/pages/newsletter directly - by typing it into the browser and signed up there. I was happy to see that the link was live and real.
The newsletter seems like a good idea, but maybe don’t include the tracking stuff in your introductory letter - because folks like me, who check URLs before clicking them, may very well balk.
I never click on links in solitations. I go directly to the sites I trust to click.
NEVER click on financial email or text messages requesting you login. Banks have learned the hard way to invite you to login via bookmarks of your own ot look at back of your credit card to call or go to a website.
The phishers are getting more amd more soficated all the time. Dont get suckered into giving away your logins to scammers.
I use a password manager with unique passwords for everything. Too many people use the same user name and pw for everything. If say the forum website is compromised the hackers just got access to your entire online life. Dont give your online life away because you are lazy. Be proactive and secure your idenity.
Always log off sites when done. Have you ever forgot your phone on a table on a restraunt? Many like paypal and amazon encourage you to stay logged in. Paypal and Amazon have access to credit cards and bank accounts. Your phone should have a password for access. Use double authentication for any site with financial transactions. It is a pain to double authenticate but if your bank account or credit is maxxed out how big of a deal is that?
We use Klaviyo for email, and some people have plugins that block everything from them because they are an email marketing company. The “klclick.com” domain seems to be the main domain they use for click tracking.
We don’t really care about tracking clicks, but it’s necessary to get that info to eventually prune users that never interact with our email unless we want our email deliverability to go down. (We’ve also never had any luck disabling it in Klaviyo)
I understand with the the mail server…you can’t take control of all you need to.
Have you considered using Mailchimp? I send my newsletter out that way, and it’s clean and simple. It still gets blocked by some people who never want any kind of mass mailing, but I’ve had good luck with it.