no html email - tech-man

amen...html should be left to the browsers. however, if eudora can hook into osx's new web rendering engine, it might not be such a bad thing (bbedit is already doing just that).

poolmouse (who dispises html email!)

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Thursday, March 04 2004 @ 01:34 PM PST

no html email - Jeff Mincey

You guys could not be more wrong about HTML. It's a myth that most HTML mail is spam. There are plenty of legitimate messages which contain HTML tags -- such as from the New York Times and other opt-in sites. Indeed, if you do nothing more than format some text with bold or italics I have news for you -- you are using HTML.

The days when HTML was a fringe "add-on" or luxury are long gone, even though Qualcomm doesn't realize this yet. All Eudora has to do in this regard is to provide users with the option to turn off HTML -- that way you can be happy while giving OTHERS the option of full formatting. But that's not good enough for you; instead you want to deny full HTML rendering to everyone simply because YOU personally have no use for it. I suppose this is your idea of good software design -- your personal tastes alone -- but I contend that it's best to serve the needs of all customers and not just a few. Imagine that.

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Thursday, March 04 2004 @ 01:52 PM PST

no html email - Why Not

Corporations including many of my clients need to be able to send e-mail with far more capabilities than just simple text. I don't like html any more than any of you do, but it is a necessity. When almost every other client supports html, Eudora makes me look really, really bad when I recommend it to Fortune 500 clients.

I like Eudora for its power, but if it cannot render html, they consider it incomplete. Regardless of what you may want for your machine, it is a standard requirement for large corporations and keeps it from being purchased day after day. Great example, a client with about 850 desktops was going to do a massive Eudora license until they found out that their monthly newsletter e-mails would not be supported under it. There went 850 licenses in a single blow.

html is a real need, regardless what the few of us might want.

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Thursday, March 04 2004 @ 02:03 PM PST