Sponsor emails: what makes you USE the tools?

[Useless]

Originally Posted by hony

Oh and send me plain text emails -- no funky html that'll trip my spam filters!

I'm the opposite - I prefer to be able to click on the links within the email since it's the fastest way to preview the galleries/free sites. (A certain sponsor sends HTML newsletters that are all mucked up, so I see the HTML code rather than the newsletter.) I also prefer to have my affiliate code already in the links, but if I like the sponsor, it's no big whoop if they aren't already coded.

I tend not to add new links right away unless I'm working on doing that at the time that I receive the newsletter, so I often save newsletters as a reminder that I wanted to add those links. Looking at my inbox, I have two past newsletters from one program and three from another. The former sends me coded links, but in plain text form. I like that program's sites, so I don't mind copying and pasting the links to preview them, but I'll more likely grab them from their admin. The latter sends me clickable links with the standard XXXXX in place of my affiliate code. Again, it's another program that I like, so pasting my aff. code is not a problem.

I don't like newsletters that are sent too often and I prefer not to have very much "news" in them, as odd as that my sound. So many sponsors create news that doesn't mean piss to me and it's nothing more than several paragraphs of fluff that I have to scroll past in order to see if there's anything pertinent in the email. Just the facts, ma'am.

Also, it's very important [to me] that the Sender in the email header is, or includes, the program name. I'm at a point where I'm scrolling down with my mouse on the Junk button and I'm only looking at the Sender field. If I get an email with a stranger's name in the Sender field, it goes straight to my McCain/Palin bin without a second look.

[SheepGuy]

JK seems to use them the same way I do, UW sorts and trashes by sender the same way I do, and I agree with everyone that all I'm really looking for is the tools, not the blah blah blah.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I'm the opposite - I prefer to be able to click on the links within the email since it's the fastest way to preview the galleries/free sites.

You should be able to do that with plain text emails. Any halfway decent email client will parse the links when they display them. If Outlook Express can do this, you amaze me that there is a email client out there that is even worse than Microsoft's shit!