OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

Lisa Kachold lisakachold at obnosis.com
Tue Dec 15 08:12:44 MST 2009


On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:00 AM, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com> wrote:

> I always send both...  It's 2009, plain text was out in 1985 :)
>

And html allows you to send the gift that keeps on "giving":
http://www.technicalinfo.net/papers/CSS.html

I prefer using firefox to gopher, media mail to text mail, and audio AND
> video over just audio.
> There is however a point when there's too much of a good thing.  I have a
> very low tolerance to 'elf yourself' and other such media emails.
> JD
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Charles Jones <
> Charles.Jones at ciscolearning.org> wrote:
>
>> When you send email with the Thunderbird mail client, it gives you the
>> option of sending it text only, or both text and html.
>>
>> -Charles
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Josef Lowder <joe at actionline.com> wrote:
>>
>>> .
>>> Is there a way to send an email message that is both text-only
>>> and/or html?  While I totally agree with keeping most email
>>> text only, and I very rarely use html ... it is nice to send a
>>> Christmas letter with embedded photos, and some nice holiday
>>> graphics.  So what would be the best way to do that and still
>>> have a text-only version delivered to friends and family with
>>> dial-up only connections for whom emails with lots of photos
>>> might be a problem?
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