I'm about to have to justify my personal belief that e-mail should be
text-only and no HTML-based messages should go out from my Exchange 5.5
server.
Unfortunately I'm up against a Marketing department who want to send the
sort of message that I hate getting - one that downloads extra content from
another site.
My official reasons for opposing this, apart from my personal dislike of it,
are:
1. Security: You can execute malicious code with HTML mail whereas plain
text is simple
2. Presentation: It's better to link to a page so the user can click on the
link and open their own browser.
3. Compatibility: People who receive these messages but not in the correct
way will phone the people who sent them, who will phone me.
This seems a little wooly to me, so I'd appreciate some good coherent
arguments for text-only e-mail.
Tim
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Tim Gowen
RAF Museum
IT Dept.
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