[joshuakarjala]

Keep in mind - the CEO in question could be writing personal e-mails out from an ATS / Sourcing tool that helps keep track of communications.

Tracking links are not always == shotgun approach

[HarryHirsch]

Tracking links are always extremely bad form, though. I'd be interested in hearing from the other side, though, why such behaviour would be considered acceptable.

[Trundle]

I think of acceptable behaviour in terms of a blacklist rather than a whitelist. I don't have a problem with tracking links because I don't see a reason to have a problem with tracking links.

[stagbeetle]

By tracking links do you mean custom-generated links to a certain page that reply back to some software showing that you clicked the link?

[city41]

Yes, exactly. Usually they are in the form of http://sometrackingwebsite.com/someid?nextUrl=https://youtub....