[michaelbuckbee]

I have the opposite issue, I'm constantly sending out personal emails asking to help people with getting setup (it's for Heroku SSL stuff and people often misconfigure things) and can't get a response from them.

[phreanix]

Write a really short sentence and your signature should say "sent from my iPhone"

[notahacker]

This. More generally, the less attention that goes into perfecting the layout and wording, the more likely the reader is to believe you're on a busy human's to do list and not a mailing list.

HTML layout very bad, neat little bullet points bad, good copy bad, lack of line spacing and excessive terseness good.

[jimmaswell]

So basically be as inefficient as possible

[manicdee]

Be as efficient as possible.

Don't waste time on presentation, so you don't feel like a marketroid.