Why not take Google's lead w/ text only ads? That would work well w/ both options for format.
> -----Original Message----- > From: John Wilker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 1:53 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: (Admin) List upgrades > > > 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
