On Tuesday 20 July 2004 04:20, Ralph Green, Jr wrote: > Howdy, > It sounds like you chose html format for the right reason. You can't > do those things you ask about without it. But, I don't feel that color > really adds much. And, if I get an html formatted message, it goes > right to my garbage folder. So, I would not see the nice formatting > anyway.
Same here. Well actually I see an empty message. If you MUST send html, send it as an attatchment but supply an equivalent "ugly" plain text message as well. > I would not ban someone for using html mail, but I would > recommend against it. Well, actually, I don't think it's unreasonable to ban everything except plain 7-bit ASCII formatted text from mailing lists. What responsible adults choose to do between each other is up to them... > When I was monitoring it, more than 98 percent of > the html email I received was SPAM, and some of it is so unpleasant that > it is not worth wading through for the few pieces that are not SPAM. The other point here is that ATTACHMENTS SPREAD VIRUSES. In my opinion NO-ONE running Outlook or Outlook Express on Windows should open ANY message containing attatchments (EVEN IF YOU HAVE THE PREVIEW PANE DISABLED, which you MUST do to have any hope of remaining secure), and NO-ONE with a copy of Internet Explorer on their system should open ANY HTML-formatted mail message. Most of the current blizzard of offensive spam comes from user PCs which are being used as zombies by spammers, and most of those zombies have been created by abuse of e-mail attatchments. Let's stamp this practise out. Regards Brian Beesley _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
