bah html email is the best thing to happen to email :) Outlook express is great if you are not a common non technical person off the street. And i look at it like this, webpages can look horrible with green on red or pink on red so i guess emails can too. If it gets too painful i just tell it to use my color scheme instead of theirs.
Bill Wheatley Senior Database Developer Macromedia Certified Advanced Coldfusion Developer EDIETS.COM 954.360.9022 X159 ICQ 417645 ----- Original Message ----- From: "S. Isaac Dealey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 3:25 PM Subject: Re: Email lists > > Jochem > > > > PS Never email me in HTML, chances are your email will just be a number > > in the filter report :) > > HTML email is a pox... It gives people too much control over the medium of > the message ... especially if the recipient is using <<shudder>> Outlook ( > express or otherwise ) since Microsoft has decided not to allow users of > their email client to make their own decisions about the formatting of their > incoming email. > > Even if the sender isn't intending to do anything unpleasant with the > message ( like embedding javascript that will continually throw up popup > advertising ), I often find the sender's formatting simply repulsive, i.e. > they'll put <font color="red"> down on top of <body color="blue"> ... Who > can possibly look at that and not get a headache? > > Isaac Dealey > Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > > www.turnkey.to > 954-776-0046 > ______________________________________________________________________ Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
