Re: HTML in e-mails (was Consulting <Tangent>)

[Jon Griffin <jong@e88.org>]

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<Reply to an assinine Flame>
I have Eudora I still say Stylized text in emails SUCK. There are no
standards and if you want me to send you a sample from the emails that
started this to show you how CRAPPY this looks on a Win95, 800x600 res
monitor using Eudora I will be happy to send it to you private, I won't
waste the bandwidth of the list sending gifs.

Also, Consider not everyone in the world lives in the USA where technology
is prevelant. If you develop commercially on the web and think everyone has
cable modems, DSL or T1 access you're crazy. Most of the world still use
modems and many have to pay for every precious minute of access time on the
net and you can't change that fact. 

BTW, If you want to limit your market to only those who have top of the
line browsers thats your business decisions but ...

<End Reply>
At 11:24 AM 3/26/99 -0700, you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from Barry Treahy <treahy@mmaz.com>
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>I will not argue with you that *nix ownes the net (thank God), but you
have little
>argument or you'll loose, that Microslouth owns the desktop.
>
><FLAME>
>Regarding HTML content in messages, this is NOT a MS issue since Netscape
products
>produce this too.  I find it ironic though, that people bitch, whine, and cry
>about HTML in e-mail, yet these are typically the same people that are
working
>with the web.  Sure, I like command line syntax, but lets face it, pine or
any
>other mailer cannot hold a candle to the functionality of a GUI Netscape
>Communicator E-mail, Eudora, or heaven-forbid Outlook client.  This is
1999 and
>whether you use Linux, Solaris, SCO, DEC Unix, HPUX, AIX, etc., isn't it
time to
>start using a mailer that the majority of the rest of the world is using?
>
>If you insist on using an ASCII text only reader, that is your choice but you
>should shut-up because that is no different that a lynx person crying
about the
>fact that he cannot browse or transact commerce sites on the Internet any
>longer...  That is why were are on this list right?  Commerce?  I would
bet that
>there is not a single person here that is constructing a website with
concern to
>Lynx compatibility.  We're probably more concerned about the headaches
associated
>with IE 5!
></FLAME>
>
>Barry
>
>Jon Griffin wrote:
>
>> ******    message to minivend-users from Jon Griffin <jong@e88.org>
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>> At 12:57 AM 3/26/99 -0800, you wrote:
>> >******    message to minivend-users from "Ben Hess" <benhess@san.rr.com>
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>> >John,
>> >
>> >That was the default font in Microsoft Outlook.  I guess you need to give
>> >Bill Gates a lesson in net etiquette also.
>> >
>> No doubt about that! I use Linux, NT and 95 so I don't have that big a bias
>> but it is amazing to me how MScentric MS is. Redmond believes that EVERYONE
>> uses MS products and the .00001% who don't, don't deserve to have
computers.
>>
>> While this attitude of, "you need to write to our specs", may work on the
>> Wintel desktop; it certainly doesn't apply to the net. In fact, MS is not
>> even close to being the major player much less the standard on the net.
>>
>> Fact is Unixes rule the net and in general (there are exceptions) they play
>> by the rules (i.e. follow the standards). But, Bill thinks he can change
>> everything on the server end with marketing. You would think by reading the
>> press that NT runs the whole Internet well the facts are to the contrary
>> and I really don't see it changing. The reality is you can't put mission
>> critical systems on a PC, much less a PC running NT.
>>
>> Just my thoughts.
>> Thanks,
>> Jon Griffin
>> jong@e88.org
>>
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Thanks,
Jon Griffin
jong@e88.org

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