At 12:02 PM 11/15/01 -0500, Keith Moore wrote: >> moore> for another possible approach, it wouldn't bother me at all to see >> moore> all of the new internet-drafts submitted in a day summarized in a >> moore> single HTML message, with links to the appropriate documents. >> >> No, please not an HTML message. Many people, including myself, use a mail >> reader to read their mail, not a web browser. > >that's the beauty of an opt-in list. it doesn't affect those who don't >ask for it.
I think a reasonable compromise here is to send a text message that includes URLs. For those who use GUI-based mail readers the software will usually convert the URLs into links anyway, and those who use text-based mailers on a windowing system can use cut-and-paste. Melinda
