JeffM wrote:
John Klein wrote:
I need a way to create several HTML email messages
for transmission by 3rd party email list owners.
First, tell them that is the stupid way to do things.
Don't you understand, USENET is not the prime thrust any more, and not everyone
sticks with the more efficient 6-bit BCD characters either! But egotistical
people who think they must thrust their choices on everyone else are still with
us. Go get a sharp chisel and fresh tablet and write your blog.
Email is a plain text medium.
That hasn't been true for decades.
HTML is for Web pages.
1) Create the HTML page.
2) Upload the page to a server.
3) Email only the link to the Web page.
Feel free. In fact please do. Any time you feel the need to say some egotistical
self-righteous thing in "I do it this way, so no one else should do it some
other way" please put it on a web site and post the link so anyone who care can
look at it.
Outside the obvious drawbacks that it add vast complexity (other applications
and servers, more networking) and makes the material available to anyone, it's
more likely to cause misunderstanding when no emphasis is used. Not to mention
text not being flowed and self-formatting into the reader's choice of width
rather the poster's idea.
People read email on many devices with many types of display, HTML allows the
reader more control over presentation. The days of email over 300 bps dial up
stored on 10MB eight inch drives is over. There's simply no reason to stick to
text any more, and if you choose to filter, please do it quietly.
And I haven't mentioned that many people read on devices where web browsing is
either not supported or is extra cost. The world has moved past the time when
there was a benefit to saving a few bytes, the cost of inferior communication is
now higher than any saving. If you want saving, limit message size and reject
messages with excessive quoting. That still has benefit.
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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