I would rather pay a small subscription fee for this list, rather than be subject to HTML emails. My concern is mainly size. Although the size difference of txt vs html isn't much. When you multiply that by the number of messages though this list, it becomes an issue. I, like many others, subscribe to a number of lists. Currently outlook takes about 5-10 minutes to download and sort them all, adding to my download time isn't going to make it any faster.
Can't you just go with text-based ads? Adam Wayne Lehman Web Systems Developer Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Distance Education Division -----Original Message----- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 1:42 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re:(Admin) List upgrades Here's the problem. The CF-Talk email seems to be so efficient that few come to the HoF site as they get everything in their mail box. This basically says to all advertisers that HoF is not a viable place to put ads and they shouldn't bother. Now advertising has never gotten us a lot of money, but its always been part of my philosophy to have companies pay for the resources rather than individuals. The main reason I was asking about HTML mail was not for people to post nice sigs or the like but to have the same plain text mail that you get today but also have the footer be clean and nice looking. This would mean that the links would come out as links and that the advertising on bottom would be a call to a real banner ad. Would this add to the message size? No as it would involve setting the mimetype to html rather than text (no additional characters) and removing the text ad for a img call (no web bugs, just plain src, which is usually smaller). My only fear in doing so would be that it would alienate some of our subscribers. What I could do is start out with the plain text message and HTML footer and then build an HTML parsing engine that will take a post and remove ALL HTML other than standard formatting like B, I, and the like. No images, no web bugs, no tables, no colors. Just text formatting. That would keep things small and still give the emphasis that people want to convey with their messages. I'd love a real, live NNTP feed from the lists and such a thing may be possible. The way to get it is to either get some software that does it, write up a full bridge along with running an NNTP server or push so much business to iMS that Howie says its worth it to build an NNTP server into iMS. I'd prefer the last option as it would be so cool and tight with the system that already exists here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
