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URL : http://www.planetfriendly.net/emailtips.html (1) Avoid sending attachments or HTML e-mail What's wrong with sending attachments? Many people ignore attachments - simply because of the extra time and effort involved in saving and opening them. Many lists and e-groups strip off the attachment or bounce the message entirely. In addition, attachments are slower to download, waste disk space, and overload e-mail accounts - causing current and future messages to be rejected. They are notorious for carrying computer viruses (whether or not you have virus protection software). Also, they exclude anyone who does not have the required (corporate) software, and the knowledge of how to save files and find them in different folders on their hard disk. By sending attachments you are supporting the very corporatization/ monopolization that you may be trying to resist in your other efforts. More reasons not to send Microsoft Word attachments: [17]www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Reasons not to send attachments in general: [18]http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/attachments.html Fourteen reasons not to send HTML e-mail [19]www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html More on attachments: [20]www.planetfriendly.net/attachments.html ... (2) Send Plain Text e-mail The preferred approach is to send plain text, also known as "unformatted" or "ASCII" text. No attachments; no HTML; no "rich text"; no "MIME". Plain text is fast, effective, accessible to anyone who has an e-mail account, and can even look quite good, if done correctly. How to write plain text e-mail using Word, Wordpad, or Notepad [21]http://cybered.umassd.edu/public/cyberedhelp/tutorial/e-mail/plain txt.html more related tips: [22]http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/attachments.html How to set your e-mail software to send only plain text [23]http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/listadmins/plaintext.html [24]www.expita.com/nomime.html How to disable HTML in a few popular e-mail programs [25]www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html How to convert an existing Word document to plain text (including how to copy and paste) [26]www.planetfriendly.net/emailtips2.html How to change the font of incoming mail in Outlook 97/98/2000 [27]www.slipstick.com/mail1/changefont.htm (this must be done by the recipient of the message; the sender has no control over the font because plain text is by definition unformatted)
