Show HN: HTML for Mail
htmlformail.com
htmlformail.com
Signatures should be plain text and a few lines at most. Apple got it 100% right here in limiting the software. Please stop including entire resumes in signatures.
Here's mine, by the way:
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Kenneth Ballenegger
www.kswizz.comI don't think that we should limit use of a technology because it could be used to create something ugly (almost all technology can be used that way) but instead look at what kind of beautiful things it can make.
your two line signature could be reduced to one line by linking your name to www.kswizz.com.
Assuming that's the case, it may help to make more reference to terms like 'Apple' and 'Mac' (on the page and in your HTML) that people may include in a query when looking for something like this. From glancing at the source, it seemed like adding those sort of terms and others from using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool (https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal) might be useful. Eventually it would be a great case study to see data and how well something like this works for you in driving qualified leads.
We're definitely looking to make this into a case-study for inbound marketing if possible, so hopefully in a month or two we'll have some reportable results. Thanks again for the feedback
I don't want to give my email address out unless I actually want to be emailed by you (with something I care about, not with what you think I should be reading). On terrible sites that have not realized such basic facts but have software I really want (VMware for example), I use bugmenot or mailinator. Thereby this sort of thing only serves to reduce the amount of people that try your app and annoy those that want it bad enough into giving you a fake email. And a couple poor sods that get spammed by you later on, either because you decided to spam them, because you took improper care of your contact database or because your company got sold and stripped for assets (customer data = valuable).
They built an email list of hundreds of thousands of people who downloaded free software.
The list is a more valuable asset to them than anything else.
"...this web site ( http://htmlformail.com/ ) has been blocked because it has been determined by Web Reputation Filters to be a security threat to your computer or the corporate network. This web site has been associated with malware/spyware."
Maybe something you want to track down, in case the site somehow became listed in a malware database. Sometimes removing sites takes manual effort.
I'll definitely look into it. Is it possible that a previous owner of the domain used it for malware?
But considering how bad Mail.app's signature UI is, this is pretty handy.