Why plain text email messages are best in today's Internet.

Plain text email means that only the words are transmitted to the recipient, without any formatting information. So your subscriber can control the format of the email in their email reader, using the size and font that best suits their eyesight.

There can be no pictures, graphics, colors, different sizes of letter nor different types of fonts in a plain text email. You can put web page addresses (URL's like http://www.mail-list.com) in plain text messages, and these links will be clickable, and immediately jump to the web page you specified. You can put email addresses (like mailto:info@domain.com) in plain text messages, and when clicked, they will open an email message with the To line already filled in.

Plain text email is easy to compose, easy to send, easy to receive. So you don't have to waste your time trying to format an email for a zillion different incompatible email readers. So your subscribers can read your email even on their cell phone or PDA. Even if they have visual disabilities or need to use a text to speech converter.

Plain text emails have never ever contained a virus, nor tracked if or when an email message was opened, nor caused any security problems. So your subscribers can trust you.

Plain text emails are much more likely to get through all the spam filters on the Internet than HTML email, and therefore be read by your subscribers.

If you do have pictures, graphics, or precisely formatted information to share, the proper procedure is to put this information on a web page. Either as the web page itself, or a web page that allows people to download the fancy document.

Then send a plain text email to your subscribers with an invitation to visit this web page. With one click of their mouse, they can immediately jump to your web site. This keeps large files from being sent to subscribers that are not interested.

All mailing lists at mail-list.com are set up to deliver plain text messages, even when a HTML message is sent. Our system will automatically convert any HTML message to plain text before delivery.

mail-list.com is dedicated to helping people communicate via Internet email. If you have valuable ideas and information that you want to convey, plain text email is the best way on today's Internet.