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HTML in Emails
Everyone wants their emails to look nice. In the early days, there was plain text with no formatting or images. Now, almost all email clients understand HTML, the language used to build web pages. A little formatting can be a dangerous thing, however. A friend writes:…[A] well meaning woman who handles *****’s online sales orders, mailing list, email list, etc. has been sending out horrible HTML emails. After informing ***** of the problem and encouraging him to get her to send simple email announcements until she can learn what the hell she’s doing, I decided to research the subject a bit and try making some myself. I thought browser compatibility of web sites was a pain, but it ain’t nothing compared to email reader compatibility. Any suggestions as to the simplest, most reader friendly html editor for emails?
It took me a few days to come up with a response, because there’s no easy and quick answer. I finally came up with this: (more…)
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Internet
An Internet Primer
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Eva FunderburghSenator Ted Stevens, (R-Alaska), U.S. Senate Commerce Committee hearing, June 28, 2006:
They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
Well…that’s one way of putting it, just not a very good way. Let’s see if we can’t come up with a definition that’s a bit more clear. The Internet is commonly referred to as a “network of networks”, which includes millions (yes, millions) of interconnected computer networks that are operated by commercial, academic, military and government institutions. Because these networks all use the same communication protocols (rules), they can share common online services, such as email, chat, file transfer and the World Wide Web, the service you are making use of at this very moment.
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