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Re: Really Good Emails

#11
I suppose I have become too old. In "my day", HTML was just beginning to creep into email, and there was the beginnings of a huge religious war to keep mail in plain text.

I guess we lost. But my mail clients will be configured to send mail in plain text until the end of time.

Re: Really Good Emails

#13

I suppose I have become too old. In "my day", HTML was just beginning to creep into email, and there was the beginnings of a huge religious war to keep mail in plain text. I guess we lost. But my mail clients will be configured to send mail in plain text until the end of time.

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Re: Really Good Emails

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post #13

I suppose I have become too old. In "my day", HTML was just beginning to creep into email, and there was the beginnings of a huge religious war to keep mail in plain text. I guess we lost. But my mail clients will be configured to send mail in plain text until the end of time.

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My signature has been a little ASCII-art box for years. Probably decades, now. It renders correctly in almost nothing, these days.

Re: Really Good Emails

#16

Are these "good" from a design aspect, or "good" because they convert?

Like most of these things, they're good because whoever is running these sites thinks they're good. They like pretty pictures.

There are a lot of people out there who want to try to justify their tastes by making them sound like they're rooted in some kind of scientific consensus but it's rather rare for that to actually be the case. Designers are especially vulnerable to this and the way that industry jumps on the bandwagon and self-righteously snubs anyone who doesn't do so with them is amazing.

To some of us, a good email is 1-2 lines of pure text, and we'd rather go without the bells, whistles, and tracking images.

Re: Really Good Emails

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My signature has been a little ASCII-art box for years. Probably decades, now. It renders correctly in almost nothing, these days.

Yeah, I recently configured my email client to use a proportional font when I compose plain text emails so that I stop forgetting that most email clients nowadays use proportional fonts to display plain text email. :-( Now I'll never again make the mistake of sending an email that includes a plain text table that I copied from my Org mode-powered personal wiki.

Re: Really Good Emails

#18

I like the idea -- a browsable archive of quality email layouts -- but most of the ones I looked at were pretty mediocre.

If you'd like to see a better submission process, it's an open-source product on Assembly: https://assembly.com/really-good-emails . There's been lots of talk about just forwarding an email to an address and having the community vote on what they think are great emails. It also made $1350 last month which is split between contributors so there's some financial incentive for you to jump in :)

How did it make $1350 in revenue? I can't see any revenue-generating aspects at first glance... it just looks like a user-submitted gallery site to me.

Re: Really Good Emails

#19
So, I get that a lot of people prefer html-email to email (text/plain), and I'm not going to argue with that. But if these are "really good emails" -- do they embed all resources in the email in order to be off-line friendly, and privacy-friendly? Do they supply good, standards-compliant text-parts? If not, they certainly don't fit my definition of "really good emails".

Judging by the fact that there's no preview for text-only view, I'm guessing not...

Re: Really Good Emails

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you'd like to see a better submission process, it's an open-source product on Assembly: https://assembly.com/really-good-emails . There's been lots of talk about just forwarding an email to an address and having the community vote on what they think are great emails. It also made $1350 last month which is split between contributors so there's some financial incentive for you to jump in :)

How did it make $1350 in revenue? I can't see any revenue-generating aspects at first glance... it just looks like a user-submitted gallery site to me.

"Sponsored by Mailchimp" is absolutely a revenue-generating aspect.
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