Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-16 Thread Matt Graham
From: Josef Lowder j...@actionline.com gm5...@gmail.com wrote: ALL HTML emails are auto deleted. Use inline or attach please. There are a ton of people who send HTML mail without text. Usually, these people are not worth listening to, but what do you do when you get a message that has the same

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread JD Austin
I always send both... It's 2009, plain text was out in 1985 :) I prefer using firefox to gopher, media mail to text mail, and audio AND video over just audio. There is however a point when there's too much of a good thing. I have a very low tolerance to 'elf yourself' and other such media

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:00 AM, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com wrote: I always send both... It's 2009, plain text was out in 1985 :) And html allows you to send the gift that keeps on giving: http://www.technicalinfo.net/papers/CSS.html I prefer using firefox to gopher, media mail to text

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread Austin William Wright
Lisa Kachold wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:00 AM, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com mailto:j...@twingeckos.com wrote: I always send both... It's 2009, plain text was out in 1985 :) And html allows you to send the gift that keeps on giving: http://www.technicalinfo.net/papers/CSS.html

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread JD Austin
I think some of the standards have gone way overboard.. some things just don't need scripting - LIKE PDFs. As soon as you make it programmable you make it a medium for malware. The real issue is the paper bag security model that Microsuck has. JD On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Lisa Kachold

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread Dazed_75
Furthermore, it dos this for addressees with unknown preferences. The Thunderbird Address book lets you specify text/html/unknown as a preference for each person in your address book if you are so inclined. It also has a checkbox for allowing remote images in the email (don't do it to me BTW).

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Austin William Wright diamondma...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Lisa Kachold wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:00 AM, JD Austin j...@twingeckos.com mailto:j...@twingeckos.com wrote: I always send both... It's 2009, plain text was out in 1985 :)

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread Lisa Kachold
Correction: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.comwrote: Here's a couple of better dissections of the subject: http://knol.google.com/k/a-short-history-of-cross-site-scripting-viruses-worms# And this CSRF gmail hack (still possible in the wild I believe):

Re: OT: How to send email that is both text-only and/or html?

2009-12-15 Thread Josef Lowder
. gm5...@gmail.com wrote: ALL HTML emails are auto deleted. Use inline or attach please. What is inline and how does one do that? (Is that a way to display images within a text email?) --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -