Re: Creating HTML email newsletters

The article you refer to states:

"Here's a partial list of email clients that can read HTML mail:
iVillage Free Email
Netscape Communicator
Eudora Pro 4.0
Microsoft Outlook
most free Web-based email accounts such as Hotmail.com and
Mail.yahoo.com "

I place a BIG doubt on the usefulness of Eudora for HTML email - that's the 
email client I use and it often screws up letters.

"And now, a partial list of email clients that cannot read HTML mail:
AOL
CompuServe
Eudora Pro 3.0 "

Eudora 3 had GREAT support for HTML mail, but it gave the user the choice 
of turning it off!! Fancy that!  A program giving the USER control over 
what they see :P

This list neglects to mention the large proportion of users using Pine - a 
text based email client.  I guess I'm not surprised it wasn't included!  I 
also use Pine, but only for accessing my email from another computer - the 
majority of the time I use Eudora.  Pine has a greater following than 
expected and won't tolerate HTML mail.

I'd recommend sending your newsletter out in plain text format (like the 
HWG Newsletter) and including URIs that link to HTML versions of the same 
(or greater) information.  Most of the email clients in the top list will 
interpret simple http: references as links anyway, so there is no need for 
redundant HTML coding.

JMHO :-)


Chris Higgs <c.higgs(at)landfood.unimelb.edu.au>
Institute of Land and Food Resources
University of Melbourne http://www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au

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