Carson: Modern email marketers avoid tracking opens to protect sender reputation
Ryan Carson · #2295 Ryan Carson: How AI does my marketing for me · Jan 26, 2026 · at 9:20
Ryan Carson discusses deliverability and telemetry best practices when engineering automated email pipelines.
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“What's common today is often not to use open because it'll degrade your sending score. So we just use click and bounce.”
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