If I want to send an email to someone I don't know very well about something complicated or controversial then I will go down the list of fonts and select one I have never used before (usually with serifs but never too fancy) and then do the same with the colours.
I go through this ritual ONLY TOO AWARE that it prolly won't look like this to the recipient and is almost certainly a complete waste of time.
what about you?
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 28 February 2008 17:03 (eighteen years ago)
You have absolutely no idea how unlikely it is that they'll see that font, do you? First off, HTML email sucks, sorta. Second, you have to limit yrself to what are called "web fonts" but what are really just Windows standard fonts if you expect to have any hope of them rendering. Maybe add in the Office fonts if you are a daring lad.
On the other hand, just write the damned mail in Word and take a screenshot of it and send that. No question about font rendering then.
OK, so my peculiar email habits? I don't top-post.
― libcrypt, Thursday, 28 February 2008 18:06 (eighteen years ago)
An almost pathological reading and re-reading to make sure I haven't sent anything confidential or abusive or indiscreet to any of the people I'm emailing, with accompanied moment of sheer terror the second I click "send".
― Mark C, Thursday, 28 February 2008 18:13 (eighteen years ago)
Mark C., that sounds like it's an actual condition or phobia, yikes. Unless you work for the secret service, when it's just part of the job I guess.
My habit, both work and personal, isn't that weird I guess, but I always use webmail to check out what's coming, then download it to Thunderbird. And since TBird is always offline - but running - because of this, it doesn't send out messages when clicked 'send', but stores them until I go online. And ofcourse I forget that most of the time.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 28 February 2008 18:20 (eighteen years ago)
I do the same thing, Mark. And after I've sent the message, I spend the next twenty minutes anticipating a horrible response.
― remy bean, Thursday, 28 February 2008 18:22 (eighteen years ago)
I do exactly the same thing, too. Except I usually dwell on it for the next week or until I get a response. THE HORROR. It's not just email, though, I'll do it after having a conversation with someone, constantly replaying it in my head just to check that I didn't suddenly shout 'fuck!' or tell them I love them or insult their dying grandma or anything else incredibly inappropriate.
― emil.y, Thursday, 28 February 2008 21:58 (eighteen years ago)
I would kind of enjoy that accidentally cruel conversation.
― Abbott, Thursday, 28 February 2008 22:33 (eighteen years ago)
not responding to any (though that's probably not very peculiar)
― electricsound, Thursday, 28 February 2008 22:50 (eighteen years ago)
i either have to reply to emails straight away or i take forever and ever, even though i might think of the person often and greatly like or love them, but when people don't reply to mine i start thinking they hate me. i think a lot of people are like this though.
― estela, Thursday, 28 February 2008 23:07 (eighteen years ago)
It bothers me when people don't delete or at least click on the junky messages that come into their gmail account, and end up with like 2,000 unread messages in their inbox.
Basically I always have to keep my unread inbox messages at 0.
― Jordan, Thursday, 28 February 2008 23:49 (eighteen years ago)
I have a friend (you'll be able to guess his name), who tried to make an awful nickname stick by signing every email:
Check ya later, SuperGordo
He did this for at least ten years before he gave up.
― G00blar, Thursday, 28 February 2008 23:52 (eighteen years ago)