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Vcards, jpegs: Please don't :-)
Authored by: pcunix on Jan 22, '03 02:44:47PM
Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you should.

Vcards, jpegs, html and all that kind of junk have no place in email.

Yes, I am a grumpy old fart. If you are communicating with people who you know have a high speed connection, a graphical email reader and plenty of disk space, fine, attach that junk. Otherwise, send plain text, and no attachments.

Apropos of this, one stupidity I get all to often is an email that is nothing but a Word attachment, and the Word document contains nothing but "I need help with such and such". I won't even LOOK at the attachments anymore - that's automatically going to the trash.

Text is efficient. I can forward important messages to my cell phone and read text fairly easily. Html, vcards, and other junk just make it that much harder.

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Vcards, jpegs: Please don't :-)
Authored by: qfwfq on Sep 14, '03 08:27:08AM

um, I doubt they were going to e-mail you

now just take deeeeeeep breaths.... in the nose and out the mouth.... deeeeep breaths....

oh and, tell it to your friends. Things change.



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Vcards, jpegs: Please don't :-)
Authored by: professor_b on Sep 14, '03 02:15:51PM

agreed. stick to plain old text. Get rid of the HTML/jpegs/vCards and other crap. I don't want to see your cute little jpegs anyway (and I can't, largely because I use Mutt as my mail client).



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