[thelist] Newsletter as HTML Email

[Thomas Moore]

Hassan, I'm agreeing with you. He's not getting how regular non
techies in a hurry use stuff.


On 1/31/07, Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/31/07, Barney Carroll <barney at textmatters.com> wrote:
>
> > You're implying legacy users, aren't you?
>
> I'm talking about non-technical end users.
>
> > Then you have to open up your email client
>
> wow, brutal. Like normal people don't use email all the time.
>
> > However on any modern system (inherent disadvantage to some, I know),
> > you will simply click the orange RSS icon, possibly OK it, and then have
> > updates alerted with a title and description (and a pic or two, etc.)
> > through your browser or a passive widget in your OS.
>
> Define "modern system", and then please give me an example page
> with an "orange RSS icon". Seriously. I'd like to walk through this simple
> process as a naive end user and see what happens... :-)
>
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