Am 10.11.2006 um 07:11 schrieb Steve Lake:
At 07:05 PM 11/8/2006 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
My manufacturing company is very picky about accepting physical
inputs from vendors. We should be equally picky about what we
accept from them in email.
Oh, I'll fully agree with that. The problem isn't doing it
the right way. The problem is the end users who don't. Think of
it this way. Techs want results. End users want eye candy and the
"ooo's and aaaahhh's" treatment when reading mail. To them email
isn't a tool, but an entertainment form. Or at least it seems that
way. I've had customers who will actually bite your head off if
you don't give them their spam. Go figure that one out. I guess
it's a balance between what will keep out the bad spam and what
will piss off every customer you have. And believe me, the line
between the too is way too bloody thin. I wish end users would get
over the "AOL syndrome" and start checking into reality. Sorry if
that sounded a bit brash, but I'm tired of users complaining about
how you're not doing enough to block the spam on their email
accounts, then do everything in their power to make sure you
can't. -_-;;
Sorry for the rant. Bad day at work. heh. ^_^;;
ha, as if it were even a rant! Anything that is multipart but has no
text/plain should be rejected by the MTA so that the ISP's get round
to fixing the problem. Flood an SMTP with bounces because of that and
all of a sudden the problem gets addressed. For the rest: have mail
clients that you can lock down to display just text/plain and you've
solved most of the problems.
Must be time for my medicine, sigh!
Charlie
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