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Ah. I think the difference is that when I send emails, I do so to communicate information, rather than to elicit people to buy a product.
Are you relying on the user's email client to convert plaintext URIs into interactive hyperlinks in transactional mail?
In other words, no shortage of interesting if often maddening problems to work on here.
Then I saw that this was all just about formatting HTML mail.
Oh.
"So if you want a reasonable portion of users to see your email as intended, let's say 95%, you have to stick to the most basic features of HTML and CSS..." Or, you know, you could just SEND TEXT.
Wow so clever. That totally solves the need to show logos and images, colors, formatting, centering things, making things visually appealing, etc. Can you conceive your needs and your basic understanding of an issue is not, in fact, the whole thing?
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How much sense does it make to measure and discuss response rates for transactional mails though?
Low response rates are used as a spam signal by major email providers, whatever the type of email.
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Wow so clever. That totally solves the need to show logos and images, colors, formatting, centering things, making things visually appealing, etc. Can you conceive your needs and your basic understanding of an issue is not, in fact, the whole thing?
There is no "need" to show logos and images, etc. etc. In fact, far from making things visually appealing, all of that tells me (and most other people) "this is an email which I can safely delete without reading", precisely because real people not trying to sell you something rarely do that.
…yes, there is. Email is a communication medium, and like in all written communication, an image can be useful. Do I really need to explain that images are useful in human communication?
> and most other people
According to you I guess?
Text. Just use damn text. Nobody wants to look at your logo. Why biz people have to ruin everything.
And the argument that anything beyond plain text is a waste and ruins everything applies to literally every single medium out there where the written word is conveyed: webpages, magazines, printed flyers, books, etc. It's laughable to think that all formatting of any kind beyond ASCII is a waste.
If it were up to HN readers, the entire world would be so ugly and boring.
How do I make gmail automatically scan every incoming email for "unsubscribe" links and click them?
Looking at my spam folder, how about hitting the unsubscribe link in email from the alias “100_free_spins” sent from top1.povertytrap.site? There’s an unsubscribe button at the bottom.
I’m slightly impressed how that spcammer is using the email “povertytrap” but I assume it’s just by chance they hacked that domain to send spam.
> An email is essentially just an HTML document, like a web page, except it's visualized in an email client, rather than a web browser. However, both are capable of rendering, which is the process of turning HTML code into text, rectangles, and images, i.e. the visualization of the content. No, it is not. An email is a text document. That document might be HTML, but it doesn't have to be. And if such email is sent to…
Once again the stereotypical HN comment of « no this is all wrong, my way is right » For all communications that matter today, email is HTML. No one cares that JohnFen choses to not render them as HTML.
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Once again the stereotypical HN comment of « no this is all wrong, my way is right » For all communications that matter today, email is HTML. No one cares that JohnFen choses to not render them as HTML.
Whast about text messages? We must have HTML in text message too, I think, so that we can use them more effectively.