RE: [epub] Email: HTML vs. Text?...

["* Rev. G. M. Pace" <wicce@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:37 AM 7/24/00 -0700, Dwight G. Jones wrote:
>The pissed off Reverend

Boy, *that's* a flattering bit of nomenclature!  LOL

>The pissed off Reverend is introducing a new concept - getting viri from 
>HTML (and not attachments). In theory an ActiveX or Java applet could do 
>some damage if loaded off a link, but it sure doesn't ring a bell for 
>being much of a problem. Mind you if you do peek at those HTML 
>attachments  now and then and happen to open one that isn't HTML - watch out.

I do *not* open attachments, unless they are from someone I know and they 
are a picture file, and I do check any attachments that I do open with 
Norton VirusScan before opening.  So none of the viruses that I have been 
infected with came in this way.  My brothers (you remember those, the 
computer programmers with college degrees?) concurred with me on this.  So 
did my boyfriend who does all my computer maintenance here.

>If your email software offers HTML only as an attachment and doesn't just 
>open it, it may be time to upgrade.

Guess you're not familiar with Eudora Pro.  It's a FULL SERVICE email 
client.  I certainly can see all html mail the way it is intended, and not 
as an attachment.  The only thing I see as an attached file is whatever the 
sender attaches as an attached file in the first place.  =)

>But I concur that two lists is the optimum choice, and for those using the 
>AOL training wheels, maybe a third format.

I'm not disagreeing that there should be a place where people can subscribe 
to, or get, the html version if they want it.  However, I don't think I'm 
losing ANY members because I use a text only format.  Nobody has EVER 
unsubbed with the reason being "Sorry, I only want to get a newsletter in 
html" and while it's possible, I don't think it's happening.

Maybe it's the niche crowd to whom I am catering (tarotists and 
astrologers) but I think that while html looks pretty, it doesn't offer 
anything that I am not offering in the text version.  Except eye candy!  =)
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