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Let's pretend you're sending messages to your new users who have just clicked the "Sign Up" button on your fancy landing page. The problem? They, along with a
by gcr 14y ago
Let's pretend you're sending messages to your new users who have just clicked the "Sign Up" button on your fancy landing page.
The problem? They, along with a significant percentage of your other users, use text-based email clients.
This is the wrong way of sending text-only email:
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>Thanks for signing up!</title> </head> <body><h1>Thanks for signing up!</h1>Click <a href="http://new-registrants.sneakystartup.net/>here</a> to finish your registration. </body> </html>
Stripping HTML tags is also wrong:
Thanks for signing up!
Click here to finish your registration.
This is the correct way of sending text-only email:
Thanks for signing up!
======================
Click here[1] to finish your registration.
1: http://new-registrants.sneakystartup.net
- mnutt 14y agoAnd most likely you only have a handful of these templates, so if you're nice you'll actually just put some effort into each one: Thanks for signing up! ====================== Click here to finish your registration: http://new-registrants.sneakystartup.net (it's much less egregious here than it is in some emails that have 7-8 footnotes)
- saurik 14y ago(FWIW, I took the emphasis and subsequent wonkier smily to mean he was joking, and in fact have accidentally sent such emails in the past from his own website.)
- dredmorbius 14y agoIndeed I was.
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