[Gllug] Email Formats

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On 11/23/01, 10:53:51 AM, "Paul Brazier" <pbrazier at cosmos-uk.co.uk> wrote 
regarding RE: [Gllug] Email Formats:

> Though to be fair I think the odd <em> isn't going to bother anyone -
> it's the reams of redundant font, colour etc. tags that are
> auto-generated by some email clients. Maybe email clients should be able
> to cope with html in a better way, but there's still the bandwidth
> argument. Still, at least it's better than the people who send a massive
> Word attachment just for a two line note.

Mind you, I'd miss the amusement factor if OE and Outlook disappeared.  
Some of the bugs are just hilariously stupid.  In my weaker moments I 
used to piss off OE users on mailing lists or ngs by starting a line with 
begin and two spaces:

begin  and they wouldn't be able to see the rest of the message because 
OE would mistake it for the name of a non-existent attachment.  Not that 
I ever hand-coded an html message with a link to file://c:/con/con in i
t.  That would have been very nasty for any Win98 users who clicked on it 
and a nono.  Putting in a javascript function to redirect any innocuous 
link in the message to file://c:/con/con would have been unforgiveable, e
ven if it did demonstrate the foolishness of adding html to e-mail.

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Bruce

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