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email etiquette
Remember, sending email in a format other than plain text is considered poor form. Use other formats only if you really need the formatting. It is better to use a plain text list in almost all cases.
email etiquette
I think that etiquette advice is out of date. It certainly was good advice a few years ago, but email clients now handle rich text and HTML routinely. I'd say that sending in plain text is still good practice when emailing someone you don't know.
email etiquette
Yes, most clients handle formatted email just fine, but that doesn't mean it should be used. Most people that use formatted email are actually obfuscating their message. Blocking formatted messages is also a good way to eliminate a significant fraction of spam, since the majority of actual emails are plain text, and the majority of spam are formatted.
email etiquette
I'll add that I routinely filter html emails to junk mail; the vast (vast) majority of the html emails I get are spam of one sort or another (the exceptions being mailing lists I've explicitly joined and obnoxious people who cram their signatures with tripe). For the most part, if I'm not already expecting to see html in an email I don't want to see it, and I would prefer (as a matter of etiquette) that people don't send it to me.
email etiquette
And yet you used underline and italics to emphasize your point.(?) :-/
email etiquette
italics in email are usually sent as rtf, not html, and this isn't an email anyway. but I appreciate the irony regardless. :-)
email etiquette
Not RTF, but enriched text, I hope? As far as I know, only older versions of Outlook use Microsoft's RTF (and that's exactly why Outlook fails to communicate well with non-Outlook clients, and why sites like winmaildat.com exist). (Apart from that, I think HTML is used much more often than enriched text.)
email etiquette
you both must live then on another planet or timezone ;-) If I would re-activate my e-mail HTML Filter from 1998 I would miss 98% of my business e-mail!
email etiquette
Then I hope your old filter also rejects multi-part messages, when some part of it is HTML?
email etiquette
Your business wouldn't happen to involve that drug that starts with a 'V' (which I can't name, otherwise OSXHints will flag my post as spam), would it? - lol
email etiquette
While I hate highly stylized email as much as the next persion, bullets and basic formatting make an email easier to read. Case in point: Bob, it's really important that you handle this today. Please follow these steps:vs: Bob, it's really important that you handle this today. Please follow these steps: Properly formatted text also provides semantic information for people with disabilities, whereas plain text ignores all of the accessibility advances we have made in the past 20 years or so. Beyond that, all modern email apps happily send both plain and HTML messages along. The reader is the one who should choose how he or she wishes to view it. Just select Always show as plaint text and your email reader will switch to the format you want to see. The problem isn't HTML email, the problem is users who think that changing the font face, colors, and font size makes an email stand out. You will never prevent these users from doing so, but you can always set an example for clean, well-formatted emails. :)
email etiquette
sending email in a format other than plain text is considered poor form This being 2009, I'd like to rephrase that to: using an email client that sends polluted HTML (like one that always specifies the font face and size) is considered poor form... Putting a single word into italics in Apple's Mail.app will in fact only add two tags to the HTML version of the message. Doing the same in Outlook results in a message that is full of style declarations, and hardly allows the recipient to even increase or decrease the text size... Using Outlook without plain-text is criminal indeed.
email etiquette
Very true. For me, an ideal markup system for e-mail would be:
email etiquette
Sounds good to me. Avoiding all the extras helps keep it readable, and speeds up the network. For the rare occasion you need the extra formatting, just email a link to a PDF or HTML file. |
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