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

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

At 04:42 PM 7/24/00 -0500, Brian Alt wrote:
>Hello again ;-)

Hi again!  Guess we're both online this afternoon, huh?  *wink*

>You're probably not missing out on any subscribers, agreed.  But HTML 
>could potentially make your ezine stand out from the pack in your readers' 
>eyes.

I didn't think of it that way.  I'll definitely be offering it in the polls 
then!

>How about convenience, or an enhanced content experience?

I'll tackle all these individually.  Bet you didn't know I was so AROC!  =)

>In other words, the abilities to offer clickable links to URLs that would 
>otherwise wrap in a text email;

I always offset my links in my newsletters so they rarely wrap around; 
plus, 99% of them are links to my site which are short and sweet because I 
have my own domain.  Example:

New Review: Tarocchi di Atlantide
http://www.wicce.com/atlantide.html

>to integrate images with the text of your email;

I don't want to integrate images though..... I want them to go to my site 
to look at those!  LOL

>to offer search, subscription, recommendation, or other forms;

I don't know how to offer a search.  People can already use the link in my 
sig file to subscribe, and all my newsletters and lists have email 
subscription commands..... I don't use any other forms or anything yet.....

>to include Web site navigation, thus encouraging repeat visits to your Web 
>site;

Isn't that what the links do?

>to integrate your site colors, layout, and logo to increase the power of 
>your ezine's brand;

I wonder how many people would want their email to come through in BLACK?

>to track the number of people opening your email messages;

You can do that?  I'm totally unaware of any way to do that..... please, 
tell me more!

>If images, stylized font, and the like were irrelevant, print magazines 
>and newspapers wouldn't spend the extra money to include them. The do 
>include them, because the experience is considered superior in many ways 
>to plain text.

You're right about that..... I guess I always figure since I archive my 
newsletters on my website, and those ARE in html, that if anyone wants to 
read them they can go look at them there.  I will definitely be doing this 
poll though, so I'll keep you (and everyone) posted on the results.  That 
is, if everyone wants to hear about it!
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