IMO, your best bet is to store the message on a webserver in it's pretty HTML format then send out a teaser message in a nice text format and include a link to the html formated page on your website.
That way you have a nice archive of your messages and everyone can see your wonderful formating equally. Also, you get a nice log of anyone who reads your message and when. Take care - Jon Carnes On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 13:49, Chuq Von Rospach wrote: > On Jan 4, 2004, at 9:55 AM, Steve Roitstein wrote: > > > I write the messages in the mail program the comes with my mac. I > > sometimes send out a small jpg attachment but mostly it's text with a > > bit of color added to a few words. > > > > Subscribers who are on AOL get the message in a different text, no > > line breaks, no returns, nothing. Just all text in a huge paragraph, > > no formatting. Needless to say, these messages are very hard to read > > and unappealing. > > > > are these primarily Mac users? welcome to AOL hell. > > Mac users prior to Jaguar 10.2 or who haven't updated their software > are on AOL code base 5, which doesn't understand HTML e-mail. Instead, > they get the text-only version your mail client creates if you're > sending out formatted/html email. > > If you're not sending the e-mail out as HTML, but instead in some form > of styled text, that's also a problem, becaues the styled stuff is > stripped out by AOL. what format is the e-mail in? html? rtf? > > In any event, you don't have a whole lot of options. The best way to > deal with this is to send a multi-part HTML/text where you craft each > piece separately and not have the mail client do it for you. If you're > really interested in making it look good on AOL, a tri-part adding in > an text/x-aol (which is a hybrid text with a few htmlish things in it). > > but all fo this requires some custom sending tools, you can't build > this stuff with a standard e-mail client. if you want to stick to > writing and sending via a client, you're going to had issues with AOL, > especially if you're mailing to users of older versions of AOL. it's a > real pain in the butt, without a lot of easy answers. But if you > aren't, writing your e-mail in HTML is your first step. > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ > > This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe or change your options at > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/jonc%40nc.rr.com ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
