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Jonathan Waggoner <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:40:02 -0500
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Stan Horwitz wrote:
> HTML is just text. Its up to the individual subscribers of your list to
> use software that can render the HTML properly. Just send your newsletter
> to your list as you would any other message.

  I've been trying to run tests to send HTML, but even my fully MIME
capable mail-readers did't seem to get it. It would appear that not all
mail programs are created equal. After switching to something other than
Eudora Pro, it seems to work fine. I'm not sure what Eudora does wrong,
but when it sends "content-type: text/HTML" other readers don't seem
able to render it properly.

Russ Hunt wrote:
>But since many subscribers probably won't have, or use, mail
>software that renders HTML properly, why not put the HTML document
>on a Web site and send the url to the list?

   I wish it was that easy... My company gets paid to host, fully
maintain, and even write this list for our client. We regularly send
URLs in their current newsletter "Burpeenews". When they asked us to
make the list HTML, I told them to just make a second HTML list, and
make the user choose which one to subscribe to.

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Jonathan Waggoner
National Gardening Association (www.garden.org)
NGA newsletter: Burpeenews, GardenWire, Willhitenews
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