[Gllug] Email Formats was Where has the modem gone

[Jim Bailey]

Hi all,

> I have to agree with David here. I spent 8 months reading almost 
> unreadable
> email while on the OU's First Class conference/mail system (First Class 
> was
> the name of it). Individuals where colouring text in about several 
> different
> colours per email like yellow on white just because they can. I tried to
> tell them that this was silly and that one word replies where a complete
> waste of everyone's time they gave me the old free speech bit and that 
> they
> could do what they want blah blah and this was on what was meant to be a
> technical list where content is paramount. The best information on the 
> world could be displayed in forty different colours splashed all over a 
> page and I would not read it as my eyes cannot quite grasp what on earth 
> is going on.

I would say that these people were stupid and will probably work in NTL 
call centres.

> HTML is not for email, I am not saying that anyone said that it is and a
> decent mail format would be nice for business but please not HTML.

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.

>
> On another topic have you ever gone to a supposedly professional website 
> and
> as soon as it is up you can literally feel your eyes adjusting to the 
> crazy
> colour scheme. Do designers look at the sites they create or are they busy
> admiring the reflection between the monitor and there Oakleys. I know they
> wear Oakleys, it's the only pair of shades that will protect them from 
> their
> own nuclear colour scheme.

I completely agree with you I like clean lines and little clutter as a 
personal aesthetic but again there is a place for nuclear colour schemes.  
again for our clients we design very colourful websites for our client 
that personally I don't like and have told our designers so (there is a 
reason I don't take part in too many brain storms here) but they aren't 
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.  Anyone one with a dual Athlon mainboard should be able 
to sympathise.  We also do some less well know really subtle stuff that I 
really like but even so I will never have an uncontrollable urge to buy £5
0K of corporate consultancy.

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.
>
> Sometimes I go out for fresh air and when I am online I go to google for 
> a
> glimpse of neat design.

Google rocks! but the sponsor links have started to spoil it.
>
> Regards,
> Harry
>
Peace Jim

"Why use a JPEG for the listings instead of text?
Because I want precise control over the layout. And because it seriously 
annoys "real ale" Internet users who do all their browsing on text-based 
hand-held calculators, and that arouses me."
--TV Go home FAQ


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