Grassroots Motorsports monthly newsletter

There are lots of folks who get this, and I want to thank them for reading it, forwarding it, sharing it, liking it, tweeting it (even though twitter is the devil), and generally helping to spread the word.

There are others who know about it but are afraid of signing up because they think we might sell their names to Viagra farmers in Zimbabwe. (We won't, I promise.) For those folks, I'd like to share this nice safe web link to the June newsletter.

Show me the newsletter!

There are still others that don't even know it exists, and for you all I'd like to invite you to check it out at the link above, decide if that's worth getting delivered to your inbox, and sign up at the link below.

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/newsletter

Not that it matters much, but the version I get, most of the pictures are all over the text, so I can't actually read the newsletter.

just sayin.

(reading via on-line comcast mail. oh, xfinity, now, i suppose, since it's slower)

That's both unfortunate and interesting, Alfa- can you forward me the version you're getting?

Also, does the formatting appear screwy when you view it in a browser like in the "show me the newsletter" link above?

Tom Heath wrote: That's both unfortunate and interesting, Alfa- can you forward me the version you're getting? Also, does the formatting appear screwy when you view it in a browser like in the "show me the newsletter" link above?

The version I get with my U of Michigan online verison is fine- format is correct- etc.

I think it has more to do with xfinity than anything else.

I can send it back, but i think it may be more useful to you to get an xfinity account and see it. Don't keep it- I'm unhappy with them right now- added unneeded content, it's slower, and can't be customized. That, and all the ads.... And I'm a paying customer....

Phew. Good to hear it's an xfinity problem.

The newsletters are getting a pretty good response rate so there are 20,000-ish people (of 44,000 plus who receive it) that don't seem to be having that problem, but I'd like you to be able to see it too.

I got mine

racinginc215 wrote: How do I unsubscribe? I was just in it for the Zimbabwe Viagra farmers.

There's an unsubscribe link at the bottom of any mass-email we do. Be careful though-once you unsubscribe, you can only get back ON the list by asking a hermit that lives on a mountain via stone tablet.

Tom Heath wrote: Phew. Good to hear it's an xfinity problem. The newsletters are getting a pretty good response rate so there are 20,000-ish people (of 44,000 plus who receive it) that don't seem to be having that problem, but I'd like you to be able to see it too.

Like I said in the e-mail- since i'm on the list twice, I can see it from my UMich account. so I'm not in the woods, just thought you may be interested.

stupid comcast.

OK, don't know what exactly this means but when I opened the link from my e-mail I had the same problem as Alfa. When I clicked on the link in this thread it worked just fine. Browser and ISP were the same in both cases.

E-mail program is Eudora. Browser is IE8. ISP is Comcast.

I have the same problem as AlfaDriver. I view it in Windows Mail and the photos cover the text. I'm also on Comcast. And I ain't changing, because where I live that's about the only option that isn't dialup.

Signed up. Loved the thing at 1:03 in the vid where the driver adjusted the mirror with his foot. I wish I was still that limber..

I'm on Comcast and the newsletters open just fine for me, although I never signed up for them.

I have a Mac if that makes a difference, compared to the other browsers and email programs mentioned.

I get it every month, both at work and at home. I like them, keep it up!

HTML Emails are the devils' work. Every stinking email program views them differently, none of them view them correctly, and on top of all of that the wild variances in email viewing windows throw even the best plans in the toilet.

Hell, Outlook doesn't even use the IE HTML renderer -- it uses the Microsoft Word renderer. That's just stupid.

Even if you know the browser, OS and email client, you still can't necessarily do anything about it.

I do not envy Tom the task of trying to make sense of it all. No one can.

For those who have trouble, I suggest switching to the plain text version for email, or going and viewing it on the web.

OK, figured it out. For me it is the e-mail program. When I read the e-mail the pics are overlapping the text. If I click on the link in the e-mail to open it in a browser (IE8 in my case) it works just fine.

The problem seems to be how the e-mail program handles the html code. Alfa, ddavidv, and I had our problems when trying to view the newsletter in the e-mail

Right. It's ALWAYS the email client, and there's NOTHING anyone can do to make them all happy, except make sure the plain text version is OK. That even keeps shiny happy people like me happy -- I block/strip html email as a matter of routine.

In reply to Tim Baxter:

correo electrónico del diablo

Ok, that's actually google translator. I'm not sure how it would really translate. I kinda liked the HTML del Diablo idea, though.

alfadriver wrote: In reply to Tim Baxter: correo electrónico del diablo Ok, that's actually google translator. I'm not sure how it would really translate. I kinda liked the HTML del Diablo idea, though.

What you wrote was "e-mail of the devil".

Was that what you were trying to write?

Hal wrote: OK, figured it out. For me it is the e-mail program. When I read the e-mail the pics are overlapping the text. If I click on the link in the e-mail to open it in a browser (IE8 in my case) it works just fine. The problem seems to be how the e-mail program handles the html code. Alfa, ddavidv, and I had our problems when trying to view the newsletter in the e-mail

What I found interesting is that it only happened in a few of the article blocks, not all of them. I think I know why, but I'm not sure if I can affect it as they're created.

Still, it's tough to explain to folks that just because it's on the internet doesn't mean it all happens automatically.

Maroon92 wrote: I get it every month, both at work and at home. I like them, keep it up!

ThankyouThankyouThankyou. There are plans to keep improving them, so I'm excited about the next 12 months.

Maroon92 wrote:

alfadriver wrote: In reply to Tim Baxter: correo electrónico del diablo Ok, that's actually google translator. I'm not sure how it would really translate. I kinda liked the HTML del Diablo idea, though.

What you wrote was "e-mail of the devil". Was that what you were trying to write?

yes, but knowing my wife, a "correct version" may not be a direct translation like that. And it may be different for Spanish, Puerto Rican, Mexican, etc- versions of Spanish. Just trying to be cute.