Actually, I prefer static content in email because it's easier to read and doesn't do unexpected things like pile MORE crap through the network pipeline. Plus, I don't use only one mailreader. For example, this is hotmail - for those who can't tell by my sending address - and I've been known to use pine for my PRIMARY email account, and I even use MS's LookOut! web interface for another account. Static content normally menas I don't have to worry about what I'm using, or where I'm using it. Plus, it's smaller (typically) and *I* control what it looks like, instead of some moron on the other side sending <body background="black"> through, without realising that my foreground colour is black as well.
LINUX ROXXXXXX! Peace! Brotherhood! Equality! (Unless you're french.) So there. >From: Alan Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "JDJList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "JDJList" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [jdjlist] RE: Java on Linux ; was: jsp/html editor note >Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 06:58:47 +0100 (BST) > > >|| ------ Original Message ------ >|| 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. > >ok ... so the reason it sucks is because the tools you work with aren't >powerful enough to work with it?!?! Come on ... thats a bit short sighted >isn't it? With an attitude like that we would still be using 8.3 filenames >!!!! > > >|| 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). > >For Javascript. HTML emails do not mean Javascript. In any decent email >client (Outlook included) you can turn all this off ... its just that M$ >takes the approach that everything should be open to begin with and leave >it to the user to close off. Which i suspect if it was the otherway round, >we wouldn't have had half the problems > > > >So ... you still haven't given me a good reason for saying HTML Emails >suck. > > > > > >____________________________________________________ >To change your JDJList options, please visit: >http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm > >Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying >____________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------- Joseph B. Ottinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://enigmastation.com IT Consultant _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ____________________________________________________ To change your JDJList options, please visit: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm Be respectful! Clean up your posts before replying ____________________________________________________
