On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 09:04:20PM -0500, Todd Slater wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 05:35:43PM -0700, FemmeFatale wrote: > > > > I'm going to risk abolishment to M$hits camp here or excommunication from > > the Linux community by saying this... but what else is new? > > > > Russ I have to agree with you luvy. Most ppl love eye candy. I know I > > do. I use Evolution for now but I love Sylpheed too. For the avg person, > > HTML mail is wonderfully put together eye candy. People are visually > > inclined mostly. (Men moreso than women; women are more auditorially > > oriented). OTOH, there are still tons of ppl out there on very lowed comps > > with very simple email programs on those computers. For them, HTML email > > is a PITA & just chokes their bandwidth/computers.
Only one in the past year have I received email in HTML form that was not spam. -- hendrik. > > > <snip> > > You must have some artistic/creative/designer-type friends, because all > of the HTML mail eye candy I get is spam. And from all the spam, most is > not eye candy but really poorly designed (I know from seeing the wife's > spam in Mozilla). > > But I do get HTML mail from some friends, and it is just plain--they > don't spend hours designing a mail template, or spend any time doing > anything remotely interesting with the mail. In fact, most don't have > any idea they're sending HTML mail because they use Outhouse or > something and they just go with the default settings. For that reason, > I think HTML is a waste. I mean, if you're going to waste the bandwidth, > at least spend some time designing a nice stylesheet or something! And, > no tables--if you can't design columns using a stylesheet, you shouldn't > be allowed to send HTML mail! > > But it is indeed wonderful for spam. > > Todd > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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