: Newsletter Signup and VCF Files Recently I signed up for a newsletter and when the confirmation came in my e-mail I noticed it had this in the bottom corner: (I have wiped out the website

@Shanna517

Perhaps there are hidden features to vCards that I'm not privy to since I primarily use Gmail, but I see no benefits in doing this.

vCards are primarily used for exchanging contact info (name, address, phone, email, company, title, url, etc.), which doesn't really apply to newsletters. Newsletters aren't contacts. Most users might put the email address of the newsletter in their email whitelist, but they're not going to add every automated mailer to their address book. And even if it were a discussion list, the only contact info that'd apply would be the name of the list and the associated email address, both of which would already be sent via the email headers.

Perhaps in some cases it might make sense to include the vCard of an actual person at your company, but a vCard for a newsletter is just pointless.

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