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Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! [message #173153 is a reply to message #173145]

Thu, 24 March 2011 18:07

Tim
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In article <imf652$fom$1(at)news(dot)albasani(dot)net>, The Natural Philosopher
<tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> wrote:

> crankypuss wrote:
>> Tim <batwzrd(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> Could no one just say "it would work better to make the html as a page
>>> separate from the email"? I even suggested as much in my original post,
>>> yet no one acknowledged it.
>>
>> It's much better, at least better imo, to simply send a brief email
>> that says "oh lookie blah blah go here for details" and include a
>> link.
>>
> That assumes your client base are smart enough to click on something.
>
> Experience shows me - and that's why I wrote that bit of code - that
> some customers can't even open an attachment. Or click on the button
> that says 'load images' or even click on a link.
>
> Probably scared of catching AIDS or something.
>
> I fully agree that huge images are bad news, but a nicely presented
> shipping notification with a company logo in the corner, is not a huge
> amount of downloading. Maybe 5-10k for a logo, and it just polishes the
> job off.
>
> About 90% of the less sophisticated people are in fact using a webmail
> client anyay, so HTML rendering is petty 'de rigeur'
>
> Of the rest, the vast majority will be on the default Microsoft mail,
> with a smattering of Firefox and Mac mail clients.
>
> The smarter people who have weird mail clients like Emacs, may be
> expected to know how to do whatever they choose to get the thing to
> render properly.
>
>
>
These are good, valid points. But since I am sending the email with the
image to myself, I guess I would be expecting it. Also, not keeping it
on the web server is somewhat of a priority for several reasons.

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		CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Tim on Mon, 21 March 2011 22:31
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 22 March 2011 03:02
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Tim on Tue, 22 March 2011 04:03
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: The Natural Philosoph on Tue, 22 March 2011 04:58
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 22 March 2011 10:56
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Tim on Tue, 22 March 2011 23:11
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 23 March 2011 00:08
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Andy on Tue, 22 March 2011 09:13
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		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Tim on Wed, 23 March 2011 18:05
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Tim Streater on Wed, 23 March 2011 18:11
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Michael Vilain on Wed, 23 March 2011 18:26
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 23 March 2011 19:10
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Jonathan Stein on Wed, 23 March 2011 20:46
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Denis McMahon on Thu, 24 March 2011 04:08
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Tim on Thu, 24 March 2011 18:16
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Denis McMahon on Thu, 24 March 2011 18:34
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Tim on Thu, 24 March 2011 20:26
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Denis McMahon on Fri, 25 March 2011 03:01
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Tim on Sat, 26 March 2011 22:32
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 27 March 2011 00:41
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Tim on Sun, 27 March 2011 20:18
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 28 March 2011 01:05
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Tim on Tue, 29 March 2011 18:09
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 29 March 2011 19:16
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: P E Schoen on Tue, 29 March 2011 19:49
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 29 March 2011 20:50
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Twayne on Tue, 29 March 2011 22:38
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 30 March 2011 00:11
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: P E Schoen on Sun, 27 March 2011 00:42
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Michael Vilain on Sun, 27 March 2011 03:13
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: P E Schoen on Sun, 27 March 2011 03:35
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Tim on Sun, 27 March 2011 20:30
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: P E Schoen on Mon, 28 March 2011 03:08
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: P E Schoen on Mon, 28 March 2011 03:38
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Tim on Tue, 29 March 2011 18:01
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: crankypuss on Thu, 24 March 2011 09:27
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 24 March 2011 10:24
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Tim on Thu, 24 March 2011 18:07
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: P E Schoen on Thu, 24 March 2011 20:48
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 23 March 2011 18:25
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Tim Streater on Wed, 23 March 2011 18:45
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 23 March 2011 19:18
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: Tim Streater on Wed, 23 March 2011 19:48
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: The Natural Philosoph on Wed, 23 March 2011 19:08
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: crankypuss on Thu, 24 March 2011 09:23
		Re: CLP - ON TOPIC! - Need PHP form email help, Please! By: The Natural Philosoph on Thu, 24 March 2011 10:17

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