Well, HTML e-mail doesn't mean a large file. So there are two issues. One is can the vast majority read HTML at all, and two is what is the appropriate file size limit. I am the last person to try to push oversized documents at people, but plain text e-mail is (in my mind) very hard to read compared to HTML. I have heard that click through rates for HTML e-mail compared to text is much higher across the board.
I remeber back when the Industry Standard was a magazine, their HTML e-mail newsletters just gave a message in comments to the poor folks who can't read HTML. Seems like a half-decent approach. Another question with file size and e-mail clients. Say user uses outlook, I send message in HTML format with <img src="http://xyz.com/imag e.jpg">. Does the e-mail client find the image when it dowloads the message, or does it wait until it opens message? Bottom line, will this ease the user's mail download burden. >>> John Dowdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/30/02 04:00PM >>> At 11:37 AM 1/30/2, Tyler Silcox wrote: > What happens when you send a multi-part email (with text, aol, and > html versions) to someone who only has a text interpreter? It depends on whether you first received their permission to push such fat documents pushed at them. I get a few thousand emails a day, and have set my mailer to not download anything larger than 20K. Others happily accept megabyte-sized emails from strangers. Depends. An explicit opt-in strategy for HTML-mail seems the norm. I don't see a specific article on this subject, but I do know these various issues get hashed out at Clickz.com: http://www.clickz.com/em_mkt/em_mkt/ jd John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US Search technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ Offlist email risks capture by the spam filters. I may not see your email if it's not on the list. Private one-on-one email options are available via Priority Access: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation · $99/Month · Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
