[Gllug] RE: Gllug Digest, Vol 21, Issue 27

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Fri Mar 4 17:48:15 UTC 2005


David Abbishaw wrote:

>In your opinion.  In my opinion HTML or RTF greatly improves Email.  The
>ability to embed inline images is just one place where its an improvement,
>if someone sends me 100 images I can either scroll down the page and view
>them or save them and use another tool to view them I know what I find
>quicker.
>

Email was never intended for sending files.  Your ability to view images 
in your email client is one ugly hack compounded onto another, 
convenient as it may be.

If only someone had come up with some kind of efficient protocol 
specifically designed for transfering files......

Mart.
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