RE: [WSG] Member country count was [WSG] Email Standards?

2004-03-05 Thread Verhoeve, ing. T.A.C.
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Peter Firminger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: vrijdag 5 maart 2004 8:38 PS: While I'm at it a quick member country count... [...] Netherlands 1 [...] The Netherlands 2 [...] Mmm... :) Total 309 members in 35 countries Tom Verhoeve, from

Re: [WSG] Email Standards?

2004-03-05 Thread Lorenzo Gabba | Quirk
On Friday 05 March 2004 09:37, Peter wrote: Hi Lorenzo, Firstly thanks for joining! You wrapped up one of the two continents we were missing in our members. Only Antarctica to go now (I think?). Thanks a bunch James/Peter. I'll take your recommendations to heart. Actually, I'm a big

Re: [WSG] Email Standards?

2004-03-05 Thread James Ellis
Carl You should be able to do a blah://blah.blah.tld in the text and the client *should* be smart enough to pick up that this is hyperlink and display it as hot. The Mozilla clients and Eudora do this. Additionally adding mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *should* be rendered by the browser as a mail

RE: [WSG] Email Standards?

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Firminger
don't care. I hope that one day both vacation messages and the extremely rude read receipts will be dropped from email specs. P -Original Message- From: Carl Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 5:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] Email Standards

RE: [WSG] Email Standards?

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Firminger
Hyperlinking URIs and email addresses in plain text emails is handled by the client (e.g. Outlook) so there is no need. Let me add to that. With a URI , starting with http:// or www. should kick in a link. For a site like webstandardsgroup.org (which doesn't ever use www.) you would need to

[WSG] Email Standards?

2004-03-04 Thread Lorenzo Gabba | Quirk
Hi all, I realise this may not be 100% relevant to this discussion group, but is there some kind of standard for email html design? I refer specifically to techniques that allow for graceful degradation when a newer feature (e.g. CSS2) isn't supported by an email client. I've spent some time

Re: [WSG] Email Standards?

2004-03-04 Thread James Ellis
Hi One of the many RFC's on the subject is a good place to start. Use of plain text is highly recommended. Check out the SitePoint newsletters for good emails in plain text. If you do write an HTML email, stick with a small subset of HTML or send the newsletter etc as a PDF attachment if your

RE: [WSG] Email Standards?

2004-03-04 Thread Peter Firminger
Hi Lorenzo, Firstly thanks for joining! You wrapped up one of the two continents we were missing in our members. Only Antarctica to go now (I think?). You could try looking at the document on http://webstandardsgroup.org/go/resource135.cfm Regards, Peter PS: While I'm at it a quick member