I wouldn't oppose a banner instead of the existing ads. It may get more clicks since the existing footer content is a jumble of text with links and such a clean banner or even just clean text that is a link, might be much easier for a reader to get.
There's always gonna be some faction that wants to keep things the same and simple. Hence the user base for Pine and Lynx. But at some point we gotta move on. HTML email in moderation, as you describe is a good step I think. Not all crazy with the sigs and bugs, and graphics and what not, but something a little more modern than the current monotony of plain text. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 10:42 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re:(Admin) List upgrades Here's the problem. The CF-Talk email seems to be so efficient that few come to the HoF site as they get everything in their mail box. This basically says to all advertisers that HoF is not a viable place to put ads and they shouldn't bother. Now advertising has never gotten us a lot of money, but its always been part of my philosophy to have companies pay for the resources rather than individuals. The main reason I was asking about HTML mail was not for people to post nice sigs or the like but to have the same plain text mail that you get today but also have the footer be clean and nice looking. This would mean that the links would come out as links and that the advertising on bottom would be a call to a real banner ad. Would this add to the message size? No as it would involve setting the mimetype to html rather than text (no additional characters) and removing the text ad for a img call (no web bugs, just plain src, which is usually smaller). My only fear in doing so would be that it would alienate some of our subscribers. What I could do is start out with the plain text message and HTML footer and then build an HTML parsing engine that will take a post and remove ALL HTML other than standard formatting like B, I, and the like. No images, no web bugs, no tables, no colors. Just text formatting. That would keep things small and still give the emphasis that people want to convey with their messages. I'd love a real, live NNTP feed from the lists and such a thing may be possible. The way to get it is to either get some software that does it, write up a full bridge along with running an NNTP server or push so much business to iMS that Howie says its worth it to build an NNTP server into iMS. I'd prefer the last option as it would be so cool and tight with the system that already exists here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm
