On Tuesday 22 July 2003 19:16, Vince Littler wrote:
html newsletters. How I hate them! and how much I despise the organisations who send them in zillions of bytes - when there is a very simple alternativewhich shows real respect for the user - just e-mail a link to a web page.
Some might argue that the recipients will not follow the link, so you are better off sending the whole html newsletter. However, when as a recipient, I think that I have been sent zillions of bytes in order to make sure that I see the newsletter, rather than allow me the choice to follow the link, it does not endear the sender to me and I block him and his whole domain.
I'm a (paid up) subscriber to a site which sends out a monthly newsletter. Nothing wrong in that since I've agreed to receive it. Still, for the first few months I got a mail which said: "Oh dear, your e-mail program doesn't support HTML e-mails. It's time to upgrade to Outlook <whatever-version>" As you can imagine I was mighty peeved. Pleased to say, after five or so /strongly worded/ mails to the site's postmaster they now send out text only newsletters. Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg