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Hi Scott,<br><br>
I used to manage mass marketing emails for the Alumni Association, and
although I no longer do, I can tell you a little about our system last
year. <br><br>
First, we outsource our emails to a company that is able to send
multipart messages. Sending "multipart" means that we
send out one type of email to everyone, and the package contains both a
"text/HTML" and "text/plain" version within it.
It is then the responsibility of the recipient's email program to display
the version it can handle.<br><br>
Secondly, the standard width for line length in terminal windows (which
do not display images) is 80 characters. It is important to go by
the number of characters, and not their widths in a particular font,
because viewers such as terminal windows use monospace type and will make
every line longer than in a pretty font:<br><br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>The quick
brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.<br>
<font face="Courier New, Courier"><x-tab> </x-tab>The
quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.<br><br>
</font>We use 72 as our max length, just to be safe. I think the
idea of 80 being a safe width is pretty standard, the same way it is safe
to design Web pages at 600px or whatever the standard is now.<br><br>
Kathryn<br><br>
At 01:40 PM 5/20/2004 -0400, Scott Campbell wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Folks. We are preparing to
send out the email message below. The message 'From the Editor'
contains hard returns in order to keep the copy contained beneath the
masthead, rather than running all across the screen before it wraps (as
this part of the message does). Problem is, if the recipient has
his/her browser window set 'too narrow', the hard returns result in
fragmented lines with only one or two words. This could presumeably
be fixed if we set up the 'From the Editor' text as an image. But
some people's email can't receive images. Anybody got a smart
solution for this? There's money in it for you.<br>
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<dd><font size=2><b>FROM THE EDITOR </b>
<dd>Welcome to the inaugural issue of <i>Supply Chain Frontiers</i>, the
electronic newsletter of the
<dd>MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. <i>Frontiers</i>
presents a selection of our latest research
<dd>as well as news on CTL activities. Please feel free to contact us with any questions or comments,
<dd>or suggested additions to our mailing list. Click on the link below if you wish to unsubscribe.
<dd>Happy reading! <br><br>
</dl><img src="cid:.2" width=1 height=1 alt="34e6b23c.jpg"><b> <img src="cid:.3" width=505 height=29 alt="34e6b25b.jpg">
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<dd><a href="http://web.mit.edu/ctl/www/news/current/options.htm">LOOKING FOR OPTIONS</a></b><a href="http://web.mit.edu/ctl/www/news/current/options.htm"> </a>
<dd>The worlds of finance and transportation could come together with a trucking option that
<dd>gives shippers more peace of mind<br><br>
<dd><b><a href="http://web.mit.edu/ctl/www/news/current/control.htm">TAKING CONTROL</a></b>
<dd>New ways are needed to govern supply chains that are becoming more complicated and unruly<br><br>
<dd><b><a href="http://web.mit.edu/ctl/www/news/current/oneortwo.htm">ONE CHANNEL OR TWO?</a></b>
<dd>Companies can be spoiled for choice when selling through physical as well as on-line channels <br><br>
<dd><b><a href="http://web.mit.edu/ctl/www/news/current/amazon.htm">NEW ROADS TO E-COMMERCE</a></b>
<dd>Pioneering work being done by Amazon.com is clearing the way for international e-commerce<br><br>
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<dd><b><a href="http://web.mit.edu/ctl/www/news/current/2020.htm">Exploring the Shape of Supply Chains to Come with the Supply Chain 2020 Project</a> <br><br>
<dd><a href="http://web.mit.edu/ctl/www/news/current/zlog.htm">Zaragoza Master of Engineering in Logistics Program Exceeds Application Targets<br><br>
</a>
<dd><a href="http://web.mit.edu/ctl/www/news/current/mlog.htm">The Master of Engineering in Logistics Program Celebrates its Fifth Birthday with Record Student Numbers</a> <br><br>
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<dl>
<dd><a href="http://web.mit.edu/ctl/www/news/current/outandabout.htm">Presentations and Papers</a> <br><br></font>
</dl><font color="#800000"><i>MIT SUPPLY CHAIN FRONTIERS: Issue #1, May 2004<br>
</i></font><font size=2>Editor</b> Ken Cottrill (kencott@mit.edu); <b>Associate Editor </b>Nicole Blizek (nblizek@mit.edu); <b>Webmaster</b> Scott Campbell (scottc@mit.edu)<br>
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Editor, <i>PLAN,</i> MIT School of Architecture and Planning (<a href="http://sap.mit.edu/plan" eudora="autourl">http://sap.mit.edu/plan</a>) <br><br>
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Scott Campbell <br>
</b>Webmaster, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (<a href="http://web.mit.edu/ctl" eudora="autourl">http://web.mit.edu/ctl</a>)<br>
Editor, <i>PLAN,</i> MIT School of Architecture and Planning (<a href="http://sap.mit.edu/plan" eudora="autourl">http://sap.mit.edu/plan</a>) <br>
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