Re: Elegant email

On 2007-07-15, David Segall <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was recently challenged by a friend because I send plain text emails
and I replied with a reference to the usual arguments
<http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml>. At about
the same time I received an email from another friend that was written
using HTML on his company "letterhead". It looked great.

Do you use HTML for your corporate or personal email? I'm talking
about ordinary email, not newsletters or flyers. Can you point me to a
site with some elegant HTML email samples? Can an HTML email be
written so that it looks OK in a client that does not accept them?
Apart from the "usual arguments" are there other pitfalls?

There is a significant number of people who resent html in email. I
count myself as one of them and count myself as fortunate that my
email client (mutt) has the ability to strip away the text/html and
present it as text/plain.

I read the page you mentioned and I agree with all the points
presented there. Why not make a stand and _not_ use text/html?

Andrew

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