Re: HTML in emails

Paul M Foster wrote: > Here is the real problem with HTML email. Any straight text message > will swell to many times its size when you HTML-ize it. Okay, so now > you're sending the message around the internet to perhaps hundreds or > thousands of users, using up many times the bandwidth that the actual > message really needs. It's like installing a 100w light bulb when a > 60w will do. There's simply no reason to suck CPU cycles all over the > internet just to make your message "prettier". In principle, I agree - in practice, CPU cycles are getting cheaper by the minute, and being wasted all the time. Not using HTML is highly unlikely to have a measurable impact on anybodys CPU cycles. Besides, HTML is not just about making the message prettier. A number of times I have experienced that important system notifications (from our systems to customers') were simply ignored, apparently due to being plain text. We decided to "jazz them up" a bit, and it worked. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (25.6°C)