Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 11/06/06 11:00

Scripsit Nico Schuyt:

>> I guess, though, some companies like to send all their emails
>> with their logos and other banners... a not unreasonable thing to
>> want?
>
> I agree on that. I send HTML-mailings every month :-)

Surely customers just love logos and banners, especially when using, say, a
slow connection like GSM. They can't wait to see the fancy images and kewl
formatting, which helps them to ignore the (excuse for) content.

> Of course only to subscribers and with a proper text-equivalent and
> embedded images to avoid the warnings in Outlook.

If you had a case where it would be reasonable to send HTML email, then you
should not include any "proper text-equivalent", since a user would get HTML
email if and only if he explicitly asked for it when, say, subscribing to a
newsletter.

> Never heard anyone complain and no one seems to filter on HTML email
> :-)

Irony has become impossible, so I won't even ask whether you wrote
ironically or not. The emoticon ":-)" currently means just "I'm laughing at
my own joke, or at something, or someone".

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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