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Posted by dorayme on 07/15/07 22:59
In article <slrnf9l918.5ga.andrew@ilium.invalid>,
andrew <andrew@ilium.invalid> wrote:
> On 2007-07-15, David Segall <david@address.invalid> wrote:
> > I was recently challenged by a friend because I send plain text emails
> > and I replied with a reference to the usual arguments
> ><http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml>. At about
> > the same time I received an email from another friend that was written
> > using HTML on his company "letterhead". It looked great.
> >
> > Do you use HTML for your corporate or personal email? I'm talking
> > about ordinary email, not newsletters or flyers. Can you point me to a
> > site with some elegant HTML email samples? Can an HTML email be
> > written so that it looks OK in a client that does not accept them?
> > Apart from the "usual arguments" are there other pitfalls?
>
> There is a significant number of people who resent html in email. I
> count myself as one of them and count myself as fortunate that my
> email client (mutt) has the ability to strip away the text/html and
> present it as text/plain.
>
> I read the page you mentioned and I agree with all the points
> presented there. Why not make a stand and _not_ use text/html?
>
> Andrew
Look, I do understand the Talibanic view that is often expressed
here on this subject. I have much sympathy for the idea that a
huge reduction in html email traffic would better the world. But
in some cases for my work, I find it very helpful in particular
situations to _receive_ a competently made html email (I almost
never send them).
I had a case lately where I lost one. I went to the server and
forwarded it to myself to recover it. Never mind why, but it came
to me on my local machine but had lost the formatting and it was
a big nuisance with all its remote attachments of information.
Before I had it all nicely there where I could use the
instructions without fiddle faddling around. (The instructions
included tables, pics, specifications, and other things that I
needed for preparing artwork for printing). Afterwards I had to
open attachments, I lost the table formatting and it was simply
not as convenient.
--
dorayme
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