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posts from @neurosismancer tagged #Email marketing

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So as more people join this strange little site, I though I'd make a new introduction post to tell you all more about who I am, and maybe find some more cool folks to follow around here.

So, my name is Rachel. In most places on the internets, I'm known as sanspoint. I'm in my late 30s, I'm transgender, use she/her or they them pronouns, and I live in New York City, though not the cool part.

By day, I'm an Email Marketing Manager currently working for [REDACTED NYC SPORTS TEAM]. I am also a professional competitive air guitarist (in that I have been paid money for doing competitive air guitar), and have been doing that fun little side thing for the past twelve years. I should post that whole story sometime in the near future.

I love music. Music is my passion. I'm an avid music fan, go to a lot of shows, like to fuck around with my analog synthesizer, drum machine, and various music creation apps. I'm also trying to learn how to play bass guitar, and can mostly fumble my way through a few songs. I mostly enjoy a lot of 80s post-punk, new wave, synthpop, and related genres, as well as new stuff that sounds similar.

Not sure what I really plan to use cohost for, but I'd love to interact with other interesting people into weird music, other queer and trans folks, and just post whatever fun shit feels right around here.

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What. The. Fuck. I’ve just been presented with the weirdest fucking email glitch I’ve seen in ten years of email marketing.

So our sales team tried to reach out to a bunch of people with an image based HTML email about a membership benefit. It displays fine everywhere except in one case: on the iPhone mail app, it displays as a mess of Chinese characters BUT only if it’s a gmail.com address.

Clearly it’s an encoding issue, but where the encoding is getting munged, and why, I cannot say…

Except to say I am stumped is an understatement…