RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-28 Thread Dave Watts
> Writing for non-html-support email programs are like writing > html for netscape > > the war is over my friends.. Uh, maybe so, but I suspect that for a while you might feel like one of the poor saps who had to convince fanatic Japanese soldiers on deserted islands - still in the trees, w

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2001-04-24 Thread zac
> Email messages with HTML (if designed correctly) are the same > like webpages but have about 80% less graphics and resources And an email message with a URL in it is just like a webpage with almost 100% less graphics and resources ~~ Structur

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2001-04-24 Thread Michael Lugassy
CTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 3:09 AM Subject: Re: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails > While bandwidth may not be a concern to you, it is to me. I live in > the foothills,,. no DSL No cable just a modem at 31.2Kb at best. > &

Re: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-24 Thread Dick Applebaum
While bandwidth may not be a concern to you, it is to me. I live in the foothills,,. no DSL No cable just a modem at 31.2Kb at best. Dick At 8:34 PM -0400 4/24/01, Dave wrote: >Agree with you, HTML email is the way to go. We send multipart text/html and >also the html-commented bit as per last

Re: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-24 Thread Dave
ndard") D. - Original Message - From: "Michael Lugassy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 8:58 PM Subject: Re: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails > will you just listen? > we send abou

RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-24 Thread zac
> HTML is giving out more clickthrough rate > then this ugly texty blexty. What a repulsive reason to corrupt a standard ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives

Re: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-24 Thread Michael Lugassy
TECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 1:36 AM Subject: Re: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails > Note that most ugs don't accept html format emails... too much bandwidth. > > IMO, html formatted email is like glitzy junk mail straight to the trash > > Dick > >

RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-24 Thread zac
> Writing for non-html-support email programs are like writing html > for netscape This isn't even remotely similar. > the war is over my friends.. Yah...who needs standards compliance anyway. Hell, lets just start making our own TCP/IP headers while we're at it.

Re: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-24 Thread Dick Applebaum
or netscape > >the war is over my friends.. > >Michael. > >- Original Message - >From: "John Fix 3rd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:45 PM >Subject: RE: slightly OT: ht

Re: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-24 Thread Jon Hall
most time in the long run. my .02 jon - Original Message - From: "Michael Lugassy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 7:09 PM Subject: Re: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails > Writing for non-html-supp

RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-24 Thread zac
> They do indirectly - MIME encoding for internet mail supports HTML. I would suggest that this is a separate issue and that support in the MIME format for HTML data does not imply anything beyond that basic fact. ~~ Structure your ColdFusion co

Re: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-24 Thread Michael Lugassy
M Subject: RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails > LOL! So true. > > >-Original Message- > >From: zac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 3:03 PM > >To: CF-Talk > >Subject: RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails &g

RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-24 Thread John Fix 3rd
LOL! So true. >-Original Message- >From: zac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 3:03 PM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails > > >> Note that 80%+ of the e-mail programs are supporting HTML! > >Note that

Re: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-24 Thread Howie Hamlin
They do indirectly - MIME encoding for internet mail supports HTML. Howie - Original Message - From: "zac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 3:03 PM Subject: RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-24 Thread McAtee, Malcolm
Thanks! -Original Message- From: Dylan Bromby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 10:25 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails he's intimating HTML readers will not display the content within the . -Original Message- From: M

RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-24 Thread zac
> Note that 80%+ of the e-mail programs are supporting HTML! Note that 0% of the internet standards for mail support it. ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives

RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-24 Thread Dylan Bromby
he's intimating HTML readers will not display the content within the . -Original Message- From: McAtee, Malcolm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 9:26 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails I am sorry Michael I didn't quite

RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-24 Thread McAtee, Malcolm
I am sorry Michael I didn't quite understand this. -Original Message- From: Michael Lugassy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 3:58 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails What we do is simple: Just start the message like

Re: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-23 Thread Michael Lugassy
What we do is simple: Just start the message like this: That's the way Amazon and Others send their newsletters. We've succesfully implemeneted this for all of our newsletters (sent you one offlist). Note that 80%+ of the e-mail programs are supporting HTML! Thanks, Michael Lugassy I

RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-18 Thread McAtee, Malcolm
: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 8:31 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails > I am trying to send an HTML formatted e-mail that degrades gracefully > so that e-mail clients thqt do not support HTML formated messages will > be able to read plain text and not a HTML code. Mal

RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-18 Thread ron
> I am trying to send an HTML formatted e-mail that degrades gracefully > so that e-mail clients thqt do not support HTML formated messages will > be able to read plain text and not a HTML code. Malcolm, We had a thread going about this last week. Here's the answer from the archives: http://ta

RE: slightly OT: html formatted e-mails

2001-04-18 Thread McAtee, Malcolm
I am trying to send an HTML formatted e-mail that degrades gracefully so that e-mail clients thqt do not support HTML formated messages will be able to read plain text and not a HTML code. I appropriated the following from a message that I have received --- this seems to get mixed results And s