Hi Brad, Good thoughts - thanks.
This guy who is formulating the advertisements is the only one who is authorized to send mail to the server and have it delivered to the list. I am going to pass on your "knowledge" to him and hopefully he will take heed. Thanks again. Warm regards, Gary Brad Knowles wrote: > At 10:51 AM -0400 2006-08-25, Gary Hall wrote: > >> I have set up a "test" list that only has the names of the >> principles of >> this mailing endeavor. We will first send out the adv to ourselves and >> be sure the adv looks as we expect it too and not other problems crop >> up. After the test run we will send out the adv to the main list. My >> primary reason for this is to check out this guy's html code every time >> - just in case. > > > Keep in mind that what looks fine to your MUA may not look good in > some other. This is the classic problem with HTML, especially as sent > via e-mail, and most especially as that is processed and munged by > mailing lists. > > Think about any particular web page, but as viewed by any of a zillion > different web browsers -- not just Microsoft, but also Mozilla, Opera, > iCab, Nokia, PalmOS, and every single other browser in existence. > Now, multiply that problem by a factor of about a billion, because > there are a lot of additional programs involved in the process that > could munge the content beyond recognition. > > > Fundamentally, if you are depending on HTML being properly formatted > and transmitted to your clients using Mailman, you are playing the > e-mail equivalent of Russian Roulette. > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp