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On Sunday 15 June 2014 at 5:36:58 AM, in <mid:1534452431.20140615113...@thebat.net>, Thomas Fernandez wrote: > Most emails (like the text messages here) do not > require HTML and should be sent as plaintext. I would say that no email requires HTML, only a very few emails benefit from it's use, and most of those would be better served by putting the formatted presentation in an attachment. > However, please do not put tables or small pictures in > the attachments. It is much more efficient to put them > into the body of the email. I disagree. For inserting into the email, the process is identical or very similar (in most email clients I have ever used) for attaching a file to a plaintext email or inserting it into an HTML email. So there is no efficiency gain or loss for the sender. For the reader who views emails in plaintext, there is the ongoing efficiency gain of not wasting time looking at such attachments unless they find the message cannot be understood without: people often include such things without needing to. And if the attachment needs to be seen, it is usually just a couple of mouse-clicks away. When a sender includes pictures in their email body, this recipient finds them in their proper place as attachments, so no efficiency gain or loss. When the sender has placed a formatted table in the message body, the recipient sometimes sees an unformatted mess of table entries one per line in their plaintext viewer, instead of an attachment. One or two clicks and the recipient can be reading the table in their HTML viewer. No efficiency gain or loss between opening an attached table with a couple of clicks versus switching to HTML viewer with a couple of clicks. Placing the extras as attachments rather than inline in your HTML affords the same efficiency saving to your readers who view in HTML as are gained on an ongoing basis by those who choose to read emails in plaintext. It also makes your inserts appear more important, as the reader who clicks to open them is likely to pay attention than the reader who casts there eye over them when reading the body of an email. -- Best regards MFPA mailto:2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net I don't suffer from insanity I enjoy every minute of it. Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________ Current version is 6.1.8 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
