i maintain a yahoo group list that, in general, i have set for text only messages. however, i want to send this list a special email for Breast Cancer Awareness month and i would like the message to have graphics and clickable links to the site i’m fundraising for.
the knowledge base has excellent directions for doing this with Apple Mail. i just tested it and it works magically. how might i do this sending from the Yahoo Group homepage. the KB alternative is to use Netscape Composer/Communicator. is that even still around? what other browsers might have this editing capability?
The current version of Netscape Communicator is called SeaMonkey, and
it is still very much around, and free. The reason that this works
(and magically indeed!) is because any attachments are converted to
Base64-encoded MIME “parts” and embedded in the body of the message.
As long as you don’t expect too much from your layout, you can do
pretty cool things to include graphics and color into a plain e-mail
message, and there is no need for any attachments or linked graphics.
The down-side to all of this is file size. If you are sending to even
a small list, the size of these messages add up; and Base64 adds some
inflation to the original file size. Keep it simple, and please
include a regular text link to the all-singing-all-dancing version,
hosted on a Web server somewhere.
Walter
On Oct 9, 2008, at 9:47 AM, deidremc wrote:
i maintain a yahoo group list that, in general, i have set for text
only messages. however, i want to send this list a special email
for Breast Cancer Awareness month and i would like the message to
have graphics and clickable links to the site i’m fundraising for.
the knowledge base has excellent directions for doing this with
Apple Mail. i just tested it and it works magically. how might i do
this sending from the Yahoo Group homepage. the KB alternative is
to use Netscape Composer/Communicator. is that even still around?
what other browsers might have this editing capability?
thanks, walt. i actually have a copy of Sea Monkey already. i wasn’t aware of its heritage. this really will be a simple, one page thingy. looks like i have my work cut out for me this weekend.
one more question. i just tested the KB instructions & Sea Monkey using my current website. it didn’t work. is it safe to assume that it failed because my site is not designed with html 3.2? i’m trying to avoid possibly spending hours (at my skill level!) designing a new page for this only to find it isn’t going to fly.
It’s also possible that the instructions will need to be modified. I
haven’t tested this since I last used this trick, at least 5 years
ago, and never in SM, naturally.
Walter
On Oct 9, 2008, at 10:21 AM, deidremc wrote:
walt -
one more question. i just tested the KB instructions & Sea Monkey
using my current website. it didn’t work. is it safe to assume that
it failed because my site is not designed with html 3.2? i’m trying
to avoid possibly spending hours (at my skill level!) designing a
new page for this only to find it isn’t going to fly.