What I can say is this... I have tried and seen it tried... And it typically fails. The user wants to drag their graph, word content, etc... Into their email, cut and paste seemlessly, have their status reports show up in nice pretty navigable graphs in an email... They do not want to open this attachment or that... Copy this file, or even click this extra button... When convinced to do so, they frequently come back with the argument... "My son/daughter does this at home and in school all the time, why can't I do it..." or "Our competitor is sending out their news letter this way, we have to do that to compete..." or... Well, hopefully you get the picture.
_M | -----Original Message----- | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Tyran Ormond | Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 9:29 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Is your email watching you? | | | On 09:08 4/6/2002 -0500, it would appear that Madscientist wrote: | >I can tell that what you stripped was a really good flame and I | >appreciate your effort. Sorry to spark that, but here's the | >counterpoint to your argument: "no legitimate user really needs HTML | >email"... | > | >We have many corporate users who now regularly rely on HTML | formatted | >reports, analysis, and presentations all delivered via HTML | email. None | >of them would ever consider using an email package that does not | >support HTML mail because their internal business systems | have become | >dependent upon this capability. | | Pardon the awful pun but, "That's rich!" | | The point being this: Is there any of what you describe | above that cannot | be accomplished via a simple attachment and likely | accomplished *better* by | attachments? | | The issue of HTML email raises its ugly <head> once in a | while but having | heavily educated top management on the problems with HTML | email (message | bloat, virus infections, spyware, browser inconsistencies al | a Netscape/IE) | I find it very easy to quash any efforts to standardize on HTML email. | | | Tyran Ormond | Programmer/LAN Technician | Central Valley Water | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html | to be removed from this list. | | An Archive of this list is available at: | http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%| 40list.ipswitch.com/ | | | Please visit the Knowledge Base for | answers to frequently asked | questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ | | Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
