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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 10:19 PM
For Eudora users the solution to view HTML mail is to go to the FILE menu and select "Open in Browser". Eudora will open the HTML mail with your favorite browser (you may need to locate your browser on your first attempt but you only need to do this once).
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Posted by jharkin on Monday, December 1, 2003 9:57 PM
The "right" answer is to use MIME to attach both text and HTML versions of the newsletter. Then everyone has a choice.
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Posted by jharkin on Monday, December 1, 2003 9:51 PM
I really dislike it. All the text was 1.5 inches tall. Where do I go to turn off this "feature?" If I want HTML, I'll look at web pages. When I look at email, I want text, thanks.

(I'm using the latest version of Eudora on Mac OS 10.2.8 to view the message.)
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 9:10 PM
The HTML format is a great improvement. It is much easier to follow than the text format.
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Posted by fuzzybroken on Monday, December 1, 2003 9:05 PM
I'm usually not a big fan of HTML e-mails, but this is one I actually like. Keep up the good work!!

-Mark Hintz
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 8:32 PM
Love your new format. Keep up the good work.
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Posted by Dragonchief on Monday, December 1, 2003 8:25 PM
I prefer it. It looks more professional.
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Posted by STANLEE on Monday, December 1, 2003 8:25 PM
Newsletter is great. Will be looking forward to receiving it as much as your magazines. Keep up the good work.

Stan Chaya
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 8:23 PM
I like it. Very easy to read.
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Posted by Nora on Monday, December 1, 2003 8:19 PM
I like it too. The colored boxes break it up nicely and make it easier to find the items I'm interested in and skip over those I'm not, but it's not too graphics-intensive either. Definitely an improvement over the long text emails I got before!

--Nora
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 8:15 PM
The new format is great. It has already caused me to read more of the email then usual.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 8:14 PM
I love the new format-- much more readable than the text-based version. My only complaint is that in Yahoo mail it appears in a narrow right-aligned column on the screen instead of utilizing all the screen space available to it (I'm running in 1024x768 resolution). So there's a big gap in the center of the screen. It looks a bit weird.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, December 1, 2003 8:01 PM
Love the new format. One suggestion -- make the most popular stories links, so those of us that may have missed the articles when they first apeared can click to read those that your readers voted most popular. For instance, I would really like to read the maglev story, but I can't since it is not a link. Most important -- the new format is great. Please keep up the good work.

Rick Batyko
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TrainsMag.com HTML e-mail newsletter format
Posted by Bergie on Monday, December 1, 2003 3:59 PM
This evening (Monday, December 1, 2003), we're sending out our TrainsMag.com e-mail newsletter in HTML format. Once you receive it and have time to look it over, please let me know what you think of the format.

Thanks,
Erik

Please note: You will only receive the graphically-enhanced HTML newsletter version if the preferences on your computer are set to accept HTML e-mails. Otherwise, you will continue to receive out text version.
Erik Bergstrom

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