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spy1
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 Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 2:31 pm Post subject: WHY you don't want "fancy" stuff in your email. |
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(And why you need Benign!)
http://www.expita.com/nomime.html . Pete |
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Wayward
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Great link, spy1. I'm in the plain text camp. Everything related to MIME or HTML or formatting is disabled in my e-mail program. B9 certainly helps with the incoming stuff.
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Ikeb
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Luddites! 
Yeah of course HTML-formatted email presents challenges. But as spy1 says, "that's why B9 is needed". With B9 in place, the 4th reason is negated.
As for the rest of the reasons given, get with the program!  Plain text? Next thing, you'll have us back to FAX machines! 
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Wayward
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| As for the rest of the reasons given, get with the program! Plain text? Next thing, you'll have us back to FAX machines! |
Hmmmmm. Fax machine sitting to my immediate right. Averaging 2-3 messages per week. Computer monitor sitting dead ahead. Averaging 100 or so messages per day. Might have a point there, Ikeb.
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rogerw
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| Ikeb wrote: |
| Plain text? Next thing, you'll have us back to FAX machines! |
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| Hmmmmm. Fax machine sitting to my immediate right. Averaging 2-3 messages per week. Computer monitor sitting dead ahead. Averaging 100 or so messages per day. |
FAX machines, indeed!
This might be a bit off-topic, but does anyone remember that about 10 years ago (when FAX machines were fast becoming consumer items - finding their way into homes as well as small businesses) there was a big explosion in the amount of FAX spam? People would come home (or come to the office) to find their FAX machines out of paper due to all of the unsolicited ads they received!
Here in the US lawmakers considered that a bigger problem than the current explosion in email spam, because they did legislate against it - apparently effectively enough, as the FAX spamming industry rapidly disappeared! You don't hear much about FAX spamming going on these days.
I suppose the key to getting the lawmakers' undies in a big enough knot was that FAX spam interfered with business. A FAX machine that was out of paper either couldn't receive important business communications (or, worse, printed them on phantom paper!) Important messages were not seen by the recipients.
How can we get the lawmakers sufficiently torqued up about email SPAM to tackle it effectivley, I wonder? Yeah, I suppose you could argue that a mailbox full of spam can't receive legitimate mail, but mailservers are usually forgiving enough to retry for hours or days.
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Skeptiker
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Probably the big reason that FAX spamming died is that it is far less economical (given the need to place and pay for long distance calls) than e-mail spamming.
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