On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:43:27 -0600 Ben Parker said: >On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:09:27 -0400, Pete Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >>Usually it is better to have the graphics on your WEB server and simply >>provide the URL. > >Yes, but when you mail to 500,000 people and they all open mail at about the >same time your webserver gets buried... There are no easy answers to this. We >have customers who do this both ways (graphics included and only weblinks >included). This really only makes sense in HTML email. I would suggest that if you send mail to 500,000 people and you don't have the web capacity to handle the hits you're going to get, you're simply not serious about e-commerce :) There was an IBM ad with this theme on US TV not long ago--"We sent out the email but we forgot about web server capacity until too late and our server went down with all flags flying" or something like that. Nathan