>Why you should not send using HTML, #1 in a series:
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> > JVC sigcard StationeryI've been using it for about a year, no problems.
Interestingly, I just stumbled across a situation where someone tried to
unsubscribe from a mailing list but couldn't. The problem is almost
identical to what is seen above. The E-mail was a simple line,
"unsubscribe declude.virus". However, the E-mail was sent with text and
HTML, and a word from the HTML section (either the title or the name of the
graphical background, it is not clear which) appeared in the text version
of the E-mail. So, "unsubscribe declude.virus" became
"Somethingunsubscribe declude.virus", which IMail doesn't allow.
Of course, I can't imagine why someone would need to take up 1,853 bytes
(plus headers) to send an E-mail that could have been sent in 27
bytes. That's over 60 times the amount of storage space, just so that the
imailsrv process can see a "cute" message. Just for kicks, I tried viewing
the HTML version to see what it would look like -- and couldn't see any
differences at first glance.
I do believe that HTML has its place in E-mail -- but only if it is used
consciously (IE sending HTML that is identical to the text version serves
no useful purpose).
-Scott
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