On 2009-12-24 10:15 , Scott Loveless wrote:
On 12/24/09, P N Stenquist<[email protected]> wrote:
On Dec 24, 2009, at 10:45 AM, John Sessoms wrote:
I think they should know better than to send HTML. I can't be the only one
who just deletes HTML email unread.
Hmmm. Let me think. Yeah, you might be:-).
When given the option I'll ask for plain text mail. It seems fewer
and fewer business offer this, even though it's really not any more
work. I have Thunderbird set to view all messages as plain text.
me too, essentially i prefer the purity of the written word displayed in
the font, size and width i choose to the attention-grabbing and
customer-tracking efforts of email marketers; i've been emailing for
over 30 years, and HTML is a johnny-come-lately
but i do switch modes fairly often for various reasons (including that i
work on software that handles email)
So all the HTML tags get stripped out and what I'm left with is usually a
list of links or something that indicates the message was a bunch of
images.
i often trash those too, and i generally avoid loading or following the
links as they are designed to let the sender track my interaction with
the message
most of them come through the "up and up" bulk email services, like rs6;
those services generally say that they provide their clients with the
tools they need to create proper plain text alternatives, but when i've
asked a few such senders why they didn't use those tools, they plead
ignorance; i think the bulk email services should take the blame for not
providing a practical solution to the problem
and then there are the doofuses who send a message with both plain text
and HTML alternatives, but the plain text part is empty, or says
something like "your email client is not configured properly" -- those
are the ones that bug me most, although they are technically more
standards-compliant than the HTML-only senders
email is fading away anyway; the youngsters see it as something old
people do
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