Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > This question is not exactly CentOS-related strictly speaking, but here > goes. I'm running a few newsletter servers for myself and a handful of > clients on public CentOS servers with PHPList. > > For the last twenty years or so I've followed the basic rule that mails > should have no formatting whatsoever, only simple text. And now I wonder > if that basic rule of netiquette also applies to newsletters. > > I'm a subscriber to a series of tech-related newsletters, and I couldn't > help but notice that they all seem to be HTML-formatted, even those from > respectable hardcore geek groups. > > So my somewhat naive question: is HTML formatting acceptable in > newsletters? Most so-called "newsletters" nowadays are only a collection of URLs and do not contain any news or any information at all. That totally defeats the purpose of a newsletter and makes them entirely useless. So no, it´s unacceptable. HTML mail automatically goes into my spam folder anyway, and I avoid subscribing to so-called "newsletters".