In <p0432040db578c495c0d4@[209.239.169.197]>, on 06/23/00
at 01:46 AM, Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>At 8:41 AM +0200 6/23/2000, Aumont - Comite Reseaux des Universites
>wrote:
>>I think that MLM should be a good reason to use more and more Mime
>>features.
>The research we've done shows that ~80% of our users want our
>newsletters via e-mail, and about that percentage are actively using
>HTML or styled text in e-mail already. This is a huge shift in the last
>year, FWIW. This has gone from a future to endemic in about 7 months.
IMHO if you can't say it with text then chances are it's not worth
reading. At a very minimum if you insist on sending HTML via e-mail then
you should use multipart/alternative format so your readers who are
interested in the *content* of your newsletter can still enjoy it without
having to deal with rest.
A good example of all the wrong ways of doing a newsletter is Wired. Below
is an excerpt from the last newsletter I received (and the last one I will
ever get):
What you are seeing is the Wired News (html) being sent
to you via email. In order for this service to function
properly, you have to be online and read your mail through
an email client that supports HTML messages.
Now I am sorry but if I wanted to be online with a web-browser to read a
newsletter I would click on my bookmark and download the @!@$ thing. I
don't want Wired or anyone else pushing a Mb or two of crap just to read
an article.
BTW exactly what do you mean by "actively" using HTML or formatted text?
IIRC Eudora, Outlook, N$ will all send out formatted text by default
without the user ever knowing it. Are they really spending time formatting
their messages or are they sending out text messages with a few automatic
formatting tags? I don't consider an e-mail program automatically wrapping
a URL in a HREF tag as legitimate justification to be pushing webpages via
e-mail.
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