Comments on: Producing Text Email Newsletters Again

By: juliet

juliet — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:16:29 +0000

great article… Just curious about your goal? dd you accomplish it?

Thanks

Juliet

By: THOMnottom.com » Random linkings

THOMnottom.com » Random linkings — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:00:49 +0000

[...] Going through old mail archives (a project of mine I will talk about later), I found a directory of Chris Pirillo’s old Lockergnome newsletter – totally old school. Now it looks like Chris is getting the band back starting it up again. Plain text is the wave of the future! [...]

By: Aryeh Goretsky

Aryeh Goretsky — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:59:32 +0000

Hello, In the last paragraph you closed with "Was plain text awesome all along?" The answer, resoundingly appears to be "yes." While it is nice to have a rich graphical experience in one's in box, there are several problems with multimedia content: It reduces the number of mail clients capable of rendering a document correctly, reducing the potential audience. It substantially increases the amount of data you must transmit. A simple text message of 20KB in length might become 500-600KB or more after HTML and images are added to it. This greatly increases the cost of mail transport. It decreases the likelihood of a message being successfully delivered. Aside issues with transport—e.g., the longer the message the more likely it is to be interrupted—including rich content such as HTML and images is more likely to cause mail to be tagged as spam. While text will never be as pretty as HTML, it does have the advantage of being ubiquitous and allows a wider range of people to share a compelling experience, even if it is one set in a 10-point Courier New typeface. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky

By: Misplaced Country Bumpkin - MySpace Blog

Misplaced Country Bumpkin - MySpace Blog — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

So if you’re in need of some computer expertise I highly recommend this guy![IMG] http://chris.pirillo.com/2007/01/19/producing-text-email-newsletters-again/ I’ve subscribed to this e-zine for years and it’s always chalk-full of information! MCB