Al's Mass Emails

Post by **bermuda** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:29 pm

For those of you on Al's mailing list, you were sent an email on July 19 regarding the upcoming DVD set. We want to make sure everyone saw the email as it was intended, and your responses will help us know if we're doing everything correctly.

Thanks!

Bermuda

Post by **Grom** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:34 pm

Text & clickable image.

Also (for me, at least), the
"FROM THE DESK OF WEIRD AL

July 19, 2006"
banner was black writing on a black background, and I had to highlight it to read it, if that's of interest. I'm with Gmail if that makes a difference.

Post by **algonacchick** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:41 pm

It was black with gray letters for me. No need to highlight, however. I have a Yahoo email account. That email made my day!

Btw, the trailer is awesome!

Dementian27 · Post by **Dementian27** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:53 pm

It worked fine for me, text and clickable image. I like how you guys are emailing the subscribers more often now

Post by **Squirrelygirl** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:09 pm

Received the email with "x" in the windows. Right clicked to see if it would show picture, but there wasn't an option available for that.

The trailer/preview of TWAS is still downloading.

I have dial-up and my email service is through AT&T. Pathetic, I know, but such is life.

sg

Al's #27 fan · Post by **Al's #27 fan** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:30 pm

It was text and clickable image for me.

Grom @ Jul 20 2006, 06:34 AM wrote: Also (for me, at least), the
"FROM THE DESK OF WEIRD AL

July 19, 2006"
banner was black writing on a black background, and I had to highlight it to read it, if that's of interest. I'm with Gmail if that makes a difference.

Hmm... that might be Gmail, or it might be your web browser. I have an email at my dad's website, but I use it through Mail (a program for Macs), and it was a black background with grey letters.

Post by **Jigawatt** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:39 pm

Grom @ Jul 20 2006, 09:34 AM wrote: banner was black writing on a black background, and I had to highlight it to read it, if that's of interest. I'm with Gmail if that makes a difference.

It does make a difference actually -- Gmail has a tendency to strip out some formatting done by stylesheets, which this message does have (this is one of the pesky things I deal with every day at work). They should probably define the color with FONT tags (in addition to in the stylesheet) so that the text is at least legible (if not formatted exactly how they wanted) in Gmail.

(the email looked great on my end, BTW)

Adrian

Post by **stupidsurgeon27** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:05 pm

It worked with the linked image for me as well, but I use Yahoo like Patti, so I also saw gray letters on the black background. Nice trailer! I can't wait!

taralyn919 · Post by **taralyn919** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:25 pm

I'm on the list but I didn't get the email. Can someone send me what I missed, please?

Tara Lyn

crystal · Post by **crystal** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 5:50 pm

I'm on yahoo also. Everything was on the up and up for me. Thanks.