5 ms·

++ "Click here if you can't read this email"

• Normal_gaussian 10y ago
  Which makes complete sense. Many email readers decide to screw up the formatting of perfectly good emails, and many email providers (notably company mail) decide to mess with the content, thankfully the "click here" statement is nearly always left perfectly usable. Of course designing a marketing mail such that it doesn't fall afoul of those intrusions is a much better idea.
  • cesarb 10y ago
    The only times I've seen "Click here if you can't read this email" in an email is when the email is image-only, and the images are being loaded from the web (which my email reader rightly blocks), instead of being embedded in the email. When an email is composed of text, instead of images, there is never a problem.
  • GrinningFool 10y ago
    > Many email readers decide to screw up the formatting of perfectly good emails I've never had a reader screw up the formatting of a plain text email, nor have I had to click on any links to correctly read the full text of those emails. Edit: I wanted to add to this that I generally don't unsubscribe from emails that arise from existing relations (signed up for site, etc) as long as they include a "text/plain" part with the message content.
    • Normal_gaussian 10y ago
      > of a plain text email Which is unsurprising. However that is not the world most people live in.
      • GrinningFool 10y ago
        True. And probably never will again - but if people like me stop saying things about it, then even multipart with text/plain goes away... then I'm left getting only whitelisted emails because I'll bounce everything else. Wait, maybe that's not such a bad world to live in after all...