Re: bill dozier (List Manager comment)

Excuse me if I am mistaken, but I dont think it was the URL that was the
issue, but the email itself. He uses a digital signature that it seems
requires it to be "opened". I dont have that problem, I am using outlook
express, but it seems that some others are.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry M. Gray" <grayt@lamar.colostate.edu>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 2:20 PM
Subject: 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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Received on Sat Mar 12 15:04:19 2005