Re: bill dozier (List Manager comment)

To the group:

For what it's worth, the list management ENCOURAGES people to post
links to on-line articles where they are available rather then to
embed the text in an email. A single click or a copy/paste to your
browser takes you to the text. There are many advantages to this
including savings on bandwidth (no need to send the text to each and
every member of the list) and savings on archiving disk space.
Another advantage is that text can be nicely formatted for the web,
whereas not everyone uses mailers that read HTML formatted text. I
suspect that some of the problem with Bill's email was that it was
HTML formatted and many mailers munged the message. Clicking the link
and going to his blog would have solved the problem. The same goes
with graphics and other attachments. Also, there is a length limit to
what we send to the list. If one of your posts doesn't come through
(and it was long, often due to HTML code), that's most likely the
explanation--send it as plain text or cut out the unnecessary quotes
of previous posts in the thread.

If you are not interested in following such links, then don't, but
please don't encourage re-posting in a list email content that is
already or more suitably web published elsewhere. Hyper-linking to
other web sources is a reality in current internet communications.
Most mail clients will already automatically open a web browser when
you click on a link (cutting and pasting the URL is always an option
as I said above).

So, to make it clear, the best practice for this list would have been
for Bill to simply post the URL for his blog entry and NOT post the
text.

TG
List Manager

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