Posted by cwdjrxyz on 11/06/06 18:49

Nico Schuyt wrote:
> cwdjrxyz wrote:
> > Nico Schuyt wrote:
> >> dorayme wrote:
>
> >>> 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 :-)
> >> Of course only to subscribers and with a proper text-equivalent and
> >> embedded images to avoid the warnings in Outlook.
> >> Never heard anyone complain and no one seems to filter on HTML email
> >> :-)
>
> > I receive the New York Times free email news edition everyday. You
> > first have to sign up to receive this. Then you have to select for a
> > text or html version.
>
> Problem is maybe that most people don't know what the difference is between
> HTML- and text email.
>
> > I selected the html version, because of some of
> > the pictures that add to some news stories, and I have an about 6 Mbps
> > download connection. Some on dialup would want the text version, as
> > this is a large download even without pictures. The key here is that
> > emails are sent only to those who ask for them and you are given a
> > choice of text or html. There is even a link on the html version to
> > select the text version for an individuual email if you have trouble.
> > Several other responsible news sources and such for which pictures can
> > sometimes be of benefit use this method.
>
> In situations like this (lots of text and images), I should only supply a
> link to a page on a website.

The NY Times has a general web page at http://www.nytimes.com/ .
However you can click the "My Times" at the top of the page to log in.
If not registered, you click "register now".
Then you can register to receive a news email every day. You can select
the types of news you wish to receive so that you do not have to
download a lot of stories of no interest to you and to keep the
bandwidth down. On this page you select either text or html. If you
happen to select html and have a slow dialup connection, the individual
emails have a link to select text instead if the download time becomes
too excessive for you. In effect, a custom newspaper is designed for
your interest. Of course sites that do not have tons of new material
every day would not need all of this elaboration.

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