Almost as Fun as a Recursive Abbreviation

In the spirit of PHP and GNU, we find that many e-mail campaigns offer the View As Web Page link in HTML e-mails that open the e-mail as a Web page version thereof. However, one of the drawbacks of a complete and utter replication of the e-mail is the recursive link:

View as Web page link right on the page
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The Web page links to itself. How silly that is, conceptually. Many of the platforms and technologies that run e-mail campaigns don’t require an exact duplicate of the e-mail, so it’s not a bad idea to slightly alter the Web-hosted version of the e-mail to add a touch of sensibility.

It’s one of my pet peeves, anyway, and when I can exert some control on the situation, I make sure they take it out.

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