Playing Hide The Unsubscribe Link

In this ABC television e-mail, take a quick look at the standard footer verbiage.  Notice anything?  I’ll put arrows in for you:

That's not an unsubscribe link; that's just text!
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Huh, what are the odds?  The links to unsubscribe and to manage one’s account (unsubscribe!) are styled like plain text, even though a link to view the content on the Web is styled, right above them, like a hyperlink.

Accident, or plain good marketing?  And by “plain good marketing,” I mean “tricks designed to keep our opt-in numbers high.”

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