On 6/29/02 10:19 AM, "Domains4Days.com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The last time I checked, the general consensus on sending out a e-mail in > HTML format was that it was not widely accepted at that time (... a year or > so ago ). It was stated that many " average " users did not have their > e-mail programs set to receive HTML mail, so therefore the client would not > read it correctly, so it was generally decided that the " safest " way ago > was to send plain, non HTML e-mails. > > So, once again the I'm taking a quick survey. does anybody feel that it's OK > to send out HTML mail to " the average e-mail client "? Does anybody think > that most people have their e-mail clients set to receive HTML? Entourage sends all HTML mail as "multipart/alternative" and always has done. That means that if the recipient has an email reader that doesn't read HTML e.g. Claris Emailer on the Mac, Outlook 97 on Windows) it will appear there in plaintext, no tags. So I can't see that there's any harm in sending HTML messages to individuals. Of course, if your formatting is garish or tasteless, people won't like it. The resolution of fonts is different on the Mac and PC. That's why so many HTML or rich-text messages, as sent by Window users, look so tiny on our Macs. They will usually send in 10-pt. which may even appear here as 9-pt. Tiny. Because 10-pt on Windows looks like 12-pt on Mac. So if you're sending a normal-looking 12-pt. font, it will be huge, Gargantuan on a Windows email reader. It will look like 16-pt or so does to us, or 14-pt. anyway, like the complex HTML messages that come from Yahoo groups. Do you really want that? Otherwise, the points George makes about mailing lists hold true. But you can send HTML to this list OK, I think. > > One interesting thing to note: one thing I personally do to screen out my > own incoming spam mail, is that if I see in HTML document, generally I will > think of it as spam and instantly delete it. Does anybody else do this too? > If so, that would be a consideration. ! I don't think many people use it as the _sole_ criterion, but there may be a few other people just like you. You can't really go wrong with plain text. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
