Forum Archive Index - December 1999

["tennyson@caverock.net.nz" <tennyson@caverock.net.nz>]

>
> Dear Forum Subscriber,
> 
> I'm pleased to introduce a new feature to the ShareChat site: the Daily
> Email News Service.
> 
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> 
> Unfortunately this service is only currently available to those email
> clients that support HTML, such as Outlook Express, Eudora Pro, and Netscape
> Messenger. Email clients that can read only plain text will not work. If you
> are unsure if your email client supports HTML, please email us at
> info@sharechat.co.nz before you subscribe.
>
Dear Sharechat,

I applaud your initiative for 'Daily E-mail News', but I believe your 
proposed execution of this service is outrageous.  

 Surely you should be sending your e-mail news as text only?    Only 
yesterday you unsubscribed someone for sending bounce messags and 
cluttering up this forum.   Yet you are now proposing to waste 
bandwidth on 'pretty' text which seems to me to be a far worse sin.   
 If you want'pretty' just post a web reference for the  subscribers.  
 
But to push feed the group a diet of HTML is IMHO just not on.   We 
all pay for each download we make (if not on a time basis directly, 
then indirectly through reduced bandwidth and increased connect 
times) and your proposal offers a 300% increase in overhead for 
almost no gain in quality.

I urge you to rethink your execution of this proposal. SNOOPY

 
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