Re: Html format email

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 08:43:10 -0600, "Rick Brandt"
<rickbrandt2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

dorayme wrote:
OK Ed. But, you being a reasonable man, things are about to change for
you from 2008 on. Here is one argument:

Sending any number, n, of plain text emails with a link to a page of
size, S, puts a whole lot less bandwidth strain on you than sending
S, n number of times. It also beats hands down the resultant strain
on the internet system because of the number of people who do not
actually get to read/see or want to read/see the newsletter *that
particular posting*.

A text link unclicked is a much smaller footprint on a strained and
crowded world than an unread but fully sent and loaded HTML email.

There are other arguments but I will leave you to digest this one
first. <g>

Interjecting for an opinion from the "plain text only" crowd. I don't think
your arguments are without merit, but I do think your fighting a battle that
you already lost several years ago.

The question is how do your thoughts change for HTML messages that use HTML
only for its formatting capabilities? Different fonts, some color, and
tables that look and behave like tables. In other words nothing at all
included that "phones home". Do you have the same objections?

My apps generate Emails pretty regularly. Mostly intranet, but some go to
the outside world and for many I use HTML because the requirements of the
message make plain text look pretty awful.

If HTML format is needed .. it's because the content of the mail is
not valuable enough that it needs a "gui" boosting ....

i have read "nobody have complained because they receive the
newsletter in html" ... may be you are true, but a lot of them hate
html - because there is absolutely no needs for html format .....
except "de la poudre aux yeux"(sorry i cannot translate this french
expression)


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