That book should be mandatory reading. I'm glad it was in our high school library.
William -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 9:28 PM To: Exchange Discussions The old classic, "How to Lie with Statistics" by Irving Geis (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393310728/qid=1043299537 /sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-5043490-9634463?v=glance&s=books) points out that lies are more believable when you use a number, even if you yank it out of your butt. That was one of Senator Joseph McCarthy's tricks--he had a list of 1,017 communists on it. Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP Technical Consultant hp Services "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of William Lefkovics Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 3:31 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Justifying text-only Internet Mail Sounds pretty dull and 1980's to me. Not one of your reasons poses a problem in environments I work in. I find roughly the same percentage of useless content in plain text emails as other. 1000% bigger for the same content is nonsense. William -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:10 PM To: Exchange Discussions On 1/22/03 2:34, "Tim Gowen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm about to have to justify my personal belief that e-mail should be > text-only and no HTML-based messages should go out from my Exchange 5.5 > server. On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, at 9:14am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry, can't help you. I don't agree with that belief in the least. I don't like HTML email because 99.999% of it is completely and utterly useless. It typically adds nothing to the content of the message at all. In fact, much of it is actively detrimental: Email attacks, browser attacks, hidden tracking "bugs", and so on. Spam and HTML appear to go together as well. Meanwhile, HTML email is often 100% to 1000% bigger than the plain-text equivalent. No, that is not a typo. One-thousand percent. Ten times. That is a mighty big increase in size just to add... well, nothing. On one system (we're a consultant), we configured a gateway to automatically strip HTML content from all incoming mail. It cut down on spam and virus attacks markedly, and appeared to reduce storage requirements (don't have hard numbers, sorry). The only complaint we received was from a user who no longer received her email horoscopes in color with graphics. Sounds like a win-win situation to me. :-) -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do | | not represent the views or policy of any other person or organization. | | All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
