Steve Kopischke wrote:
on 11/02/05 08:57 'mark' wrote:
Randomthots wrote:
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What *I* get annoyed at is the attitude that just because some people
in the world pay for Internet by the byte, that it's somehow wrong in
principle to *ever* use technology like html e-mail. What if I want
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Hey, great way to spread viruses and worms! Go for it! Of course,
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mark "all* my email is ascii plaintext"
Yikes, mark - what got your undies in a bundle? Just because a rather
Luddite approach to e-mail formatting is right for you, don't presume
that it is right to everyone.
Luddite means against all technology, or most advances. I've been doing
email for 15 years, and see ->no reason<- for HTML email. Further, you
seem to ignore my main complaint... unless you didn't understand it.
Look, HTML spammail frequently includes executables, or links to sites
where, if you don't have it turned off, your mailtool will download, on
the fly, a graphic (or whatever) from a site. This is a very common
means of spreading worms and viruses.
Oh, and "luddite"? I'm a Unix/Linux software developer, Unix/Linux
sysadmin, and software configuration, build and release manager (when
I'm working, not job hunting), and have been working in the field for
more than two dozen years.
I, too, prefer to be able to include a bit of HTML formatting in *some*
e-mail messages. Sometimes, a bit of style can carry the content's
I correspond with a lot of folks, and my wife, who's on a larger number
of mailing lists, does a lot more, and neither of us feels any need for
HTML email, and no one seems to not understand us, unless we haven't
phrased something correctly. Seriously, have you had any trouble
understanding any of my posts, where I've used what have been 'Net
standards for 20+ years - the caps, the surrounded by asterisks, etc?
(And I got tired of smileys ten years ago, so I went to the alternative <g>)
intended meaning much more easily than a clumsy smiley. Also, a number
of the e-mail newsletters I receive are formatted to resemble the Web
pages that spawned them. A nice bit of brand bundling that actually
That, I hate. Email is not a Website - you want the Website, go there! A
far better answer is, for example, the emails I get from Truthout.org,
or the way I send out story links to lists: A headline, a paragraph, so
that the recipient can decide for themselves if they want to read more,
and a link. They want the whole thing, they can go there, and see it in
all it's Web-glory.
Next you'll tell us that you have javascript, etc, enabled for your
email.... <shudder>
makes the messages easier to read.
Pardon? The only thing that I find makes messages easier to read is when
someone knows how to format paragraphs (not a problem on this list), as
opposed to four or five inches on my screen of run-on sentences. (And
when I see that in a job description!)
mark
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"One of the greatest tragedies in human history was the hijacking of
morality by religion." - Sir Arthur C. Clarke
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