Forum Archive Index - December 1999

["Ben Dutton" <bendutton@sharechat.co.nz>]

Dear Snoopy,

I think you have misunderstood the Email Service.  We are not "push feeding"
anyone HTML.  We are not making anyone subscribe to the Email Service: that
is entirely up for people to decide themselves.  It has _nothing_ to do with
the ShareChat forum Email list -- it is an entirely different service.

This is a service that we felt some people may find convenient -- to have
the market news links of the day delivered to their inbox -- and indeed,
there have already been many subscriptions.

The fact that we are delivering it via HTML only has to do with technical
reasons that Will can elaborate on.

If you don't want to subscribe, please don't.  We are not trying to make
life harder for people through increased downloads etc.  Quite to the
contrary we are trying to make life easier!

I hope this clears things up.

Benjamin Dutton
Managing Director
ShareChat Limited


----- Original Message -----
From: <tennyson@caverock.net.nz>
To: <sharechat@sharechat.co.nz>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: [sharechat] Announcement


> >
> > Dear Forum Subscriber,
> >
> > I'm pleased to introduce a new feature to the ShareChat site: the Daily
> > Email News Service.
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> > 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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> e-mail  tennyson@caverock.net.nz
> on Pegasus Mail version 2.55
> ----------------------------------
> "You can tell me I'm wrong twice,
> but that still only makes me wrong once."
>
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