> ||| better than LookOut. Whoever thought of allowing dynamic > ||| content in email needs to be taken out and whipped. > > isn't that a little narrow minded? > > what is wrong with seeing a little color, different font, even > say a picture > in an email?? > > why must we be stuck with dull and lifeless ASCII text?!?! > > haven't we evolved to have something better than ASCII text?!?!? > > i really dislike this geeky attitude that HTML emails suck. > > [let the FLAME WAR begin!!!]
Personally I'd love sendmail to come with a rewrite rule that takes out all HTML email. I would deploy that immediately. HTML email sucks because; 1> at home, in my home account, I like to use Mutt (unix command line mailer). Other users of the machine use pine. TEXT is efficient. There is no problem in writing, 'for colour version go to website http://blah.blah.blah/";. Look at how in Outlook and Netscape and others that plain text URL is detected and linked accordingly. 2> I moderate a mailing list using mutt and procmail recipes. We have big problems with volume and HTML mail. All HTML email is rejected automatically regardless of content. 3> SECURITY !!! (javascript issues, plus spammer can use html tags to tag back to their website and thereby 'verify' your address if you open it before you delete it). With all these security and spam issues I think in a few years email MTAs will all have a certificate mechanism ... no certificate no email exchange. Certainly recently I have thought about banning all incoming email on my server (not this one, my home email) with any headers from *hotmail.com and *yahoo.com, plus *.kr and some others. I regard the level of email noise in terms of spam and virus infections as increasingly the major problem with my electronic communications today. regs scot. ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________
