[thelist] HTML in email

[Captain F.M. O'Lary]

At 12:12 PM 6/20/01 , you wrote:
{ . . .}
>What i'm looking for is a way to check if HTML is switched on or off and
>then display text or HTML version (thus avoiding any
>ugly emails that will drive our prospects to the firm next door) .
>
>thx, jelle

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong . . .

but wouldn't that require *some type* of executable being sent in a . .
for lack of a better term . . .  Query Mail that would look at the users
settings and report them back to you (your server)?

WOW. You think scrambled HTML E-Mail is bad (HTML E-mail in general sucks
in my opinion - but I'm trying not to mention that) wait until you see the
response(s) from sending THAT "message".

Obviously, all this is just my opinion . . . but I would respectfully
suggest you save formatting for display, and use e-mail for communication.
The whole planet will thank you for it in the long run :-).

FWIW,
Fuzzy.
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