On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 at 21:09:35 -0800, E McCann observed:
>At 06:18 PM 11/17/2002, Robert Gray typed thusly:
>>I set Eudora not to download HTML. Any message with HTML graphics is
>>usually crap anyway.
>
>Not to mention annoying... one list my wife's on has ONE member that
>insists on sending stuff with fancy backgrounds (can't read what's in the
>email over it,) banners, animated graphics, and occasionally MIDI (ugh!) -
>found a good 10 meg of it after a few weeks.
You think that's bad? Where my wife works, one of the senior VPs sends out
corporate-wide email like that. The techies don't see it because they
mostly use text-only mail clients in *nix, but the non-techies running
Office2000/XP get illegible messages and the mail servers are all
overloaded with the crap. When I was there I spent countless hours trying
to teach the virtues of plain-text internal messages and PDF files on the
corporate intranet, but to no avail. Touchy-feely admin types just don't
get it that email is for communication, not artistic expression. Mind you,
most of them could also use a course in effective writing, but that's a
subject for an altogether different thread (and forum, for that matter).
Sp00ky
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