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Gmail keeps editing mails. They have a concept of "dynamic emails" people can send now. Like if you get a mail notification about something in Docs, they will keep updating the mail in your inbox together with modified / added comments in the document.

Absolutely bonkers.

"Because of the dynamic nature of AMP messages, the content displayed in Gmail messages can change as time passes." https://support.google.com/a/answer/9709409?hl=en

Microsoft has this now too with Loop components. If you put any text content around it that doesn't change, but the "Loop" component is a live doc and will update on the email client's end of the remote doc changes.

Low key: Loop is actually great. I think it's the first thing I've used that's captured the dream of what Google Wave wanted to be

Great for audits. And gmail ate my homework...

Jesus, I had no idea :-(

Damn, that must be why they keep making it harder and harder for independently run mailing lists to deliver to gmail users.

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