[Gllug] Email Formats was Where has the modem gone

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 21 Nov 2001, Jim Bailey wrote:
>On certain levels HTML is for emails but not on a technical discussion 
>lists.  We design and send out tens of thousands of emails a week on 
>behalf of our clients to their customers.  both of which would be 
>extremely upset to if we used plain text over HTML, Javascript, Flash and 
>Shockwave.

Who are these customers who don't just want to know some facts?

>aimed at balding 30 something sys admins running to fat but 16-24 year old 
>fashion victims who badly need the feeling of superiority that comes with 
>the latest style.

And someone thinks nuclear Web design attracts these people. They
_really_ need to read Jakob Nielsen... or consider that only the
subset of them with broadband can even possibly be attracted to
overdesigned pages.

>It is entirely phenomenological but I actually find some geek sites 
>cluttered, ugly and initialy confusing, Slashdot is one and the PHP nuke 
>home page another.

Geeks are not immune to overdesign, alas.

-- 
David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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