Re: FN-FORUM: RE: MIME email type

date posted 13th March 2006 11:36

Alain Williams wrote:
>> From: "D D Glendinning" [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> Morning All,
>>
>> Right, this is puzzling and wanted your take(s) on this. I am setting
>> up my email with a small banner at the bottom as a footer. So the
>> email is HTML. Am doing this in Thunderbird, and works fine. I am
>
> HTML email is a vile abomination that should not be encouraged in any way.
>
> Why:
>
> * The mail reader often does not have everything that it needs to display
> the email, that means it needs access to the web to display the mail.
> * It is slower -- web accesses take time
> * It cannot always be done offline
> * It is a security risk - who knows what is embedded in the html
> * Spammers love it -- include some unique identifier in a url that your mail
> reader fetches and bingo, they know that they have a live email account
> * Different renderers display the mail differently
> * It increases the size of email
>
> What does it add ?
>
> Errrm, the ability to have fancy fonts & colours in email ....
>
> Sorry: I read email for it's content, not to see the pretty colours.

Alain,

I couldn't agree with you more. See http://dave.org.uk/email.html for
more on my opinions on the subject.

A couple of other articles on the subject that you might be interested in:

Basic Bulk Email
http://blog.dave.org.uk/archives/000873.html

Phishing Protection
http://blog.dave.org.uk/archives/000682.html

Cheers,

Dave...

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