[okfn-help] Beautifying the OKF newsletter (sent out via mailman)?

Tue Nov 8 21:58:23 UTC 2011

HTML mails with non-personalised links which have all embedded elements
(like images) attached should be fine. Though i heard that it is quite
hard to compose self-contained HTML mails that all common mail clients
render nicely.

I also support to stick with mailman and to not use platforms like
campaignmonitor or mailchimp. They are not only newsletter generators,
but marketing tools which observe who is viewing a mail at what time and
clicking on what link. And many ppl find that not ok, particularly in
the Open-Source community (i am one of them).

/nils.

PS: I never understood why newsletter mails are not just one-liners
saying "Visit http://example.com/news to read our latest news letter."
You can't reply to them anyway, so no need for a body to quote! Also
easier to share on social media.

On 08/11/11 22:15, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> I definitely agree that we don't want to end up making two copies of
> the newsletter if we can help it.
> 
> Before the days of HTML being ubiquitous on mail clients, what did
> people do? Is there some way of displaying a note saying "if you don't
> have HTML in your browser, you can view this newsletter by going here
> [link]"?
> 
> J.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:47 PM, David Read <david.read at okfn.org> wrote:
>> On 8 November 2011 17:37, Everton Zanella Alvarenga
>> <everton137 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2011/11/8 Daniel Dietrich <daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>:
>>>
>>>> I really like the term "beautification options"! I am also afraid I am a bit
>>>> old school, but I think its really about the content not the format. Plain
>>>> text via mailman is fine. In addition we could create a html version using
>>>> all our beautification skills :)
>>>
>>> I, personaly, prefer to receive emails only in plain text. If there
>>> will be a HTML newsletter, I believe there should be an option to
>>> choose between the two versions.
>>
>> It might just be late in the day, but I really can't understand how
>> offering and producing two different options for this newsletter is a
>> valuable use of OKF resources.
>>
>> My vote is for taking advantage of HTML in emails. I think the vast
>> majority of recipients mail clients will display HTML fine, and that
>> is the same result as us putting it on a web page.
>>
>> David
>>
>>> For beutification, it could point at the end of the email to a wiki or
>>> a blog, as these examples of Wikimedia Foundation (I like both)
>>>
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2011-10-31
>>>
>>> http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/research-2/wikimedia-research-newsletter/
>>>
>>> []'s,
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
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