RE: FN-FORUM: RE: MIME email type

date posted 13th March 2006 12:21

Hurrah!

BTW Dave, I read everything including Hotmail mail in plain text, so it
must
do a plain text version. Of course, *I* send mail from Hotmail in plain
text too.

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Cross" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 12:20 PM
> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: RE: MIME email type
>
>
> >
> > Alain Williams wrote:
> > >> From: "D D Glendinning" [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > >> Morning All,
> > >>
> > >> Right, this is puzzling and wanted your take(s) on this. I am setting
> > >> up my email with a small banner at the bottom as a footer. So the
> > >> email is HTML. Am doing this in Thunderbird, and works fine. I am
> > >
> > > HTML email is a vile abomination that should not be encouraged in any
> way.
> > >
> > > Why:
> > >
> > > * The mail reader often does not have everything that it needs to
> display
> > > the email, that means it needs access to the web to display the
mail.
> > > * It is slower -- web accesses take time
> > > * It cannot always be done offline
> > > * It is a security risk - who knows what is embedded in the html
> > > * Spammers love it -- include some unique identifier in a url that
your
> mail
> > > reader fetches and bingo, they know that they have a live email
> account
> > > * Different renderers display the mail differently
> > > * It increases the size of email
> > >
> > > What does it add ?
> > >
> > > Errrm, the ability to have fancy fonts & colours in email ....
> > >
> > > Sorry: I read email for it's content, not to see the pretty colours.
> >
> > Alain,
> >
> > I couldn't agree with you more. See http://dave.org.uk/email.html for
> > more on my opinions on the subject.
> >
> > A couple of other articles on the subject that you might be interested
in:
> >
> > Basic Bulk Email
> > http://blog.dave.org.uk/archives/000873.html
> >
> > Phishing Protection
> > http://blog.dave.org.uk/archives/000682.html
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Dave...
>


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