At 08:19 6/17/98 -0600, James Boorn wrote:
[about emailing HTML formatted documents]
>Waste of bandwidth. Put up a web page and email the url to subscribers
>when it gets updated.
• Some people prefer push.
• Some do not have toll-free local calling (not everyone lives in the
U.S.). Downloading from a local mail server is usually faster than GETting
from a (distant?) Web site.
• Not all organizations have access to a web server to post documents.
• Managing an email distribution list is easier than managing user access
to a web server if you need to restrict distribution of the document. This
is especially true if you don't own the server. But any competent email
user can manage a list of addresses in their preferred mail client.
One size does not fit all. Besides, the only bandwidth saved will be for
those users that do not retrieve the document. That will vary on a
case-by-case basis. There _is_ a place for HTML mail.
Tony
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