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Hi Erica. Another point I forgot to make in my original email was that all the 'free' email providers - GMail, Hotmail, Live mail, Yahoo mail - not only read your messages and track your patterns, they sell this information to literally thousands of companies. Your email here on Chebucto gets read by you and you alone. A quick Google around the Internet shows dozens of sites that go on about the drawbacks of HTML mail. The points go like this: 1. HTML email messages are in fact sent as two versions, one plain text and one HTML. This at least doubles and can triple the length of the email. You as the sender has no idea which one will be read. For example in your first letter to me, your bolded bold was rendered in the text version as BOLD and your italic'd italic was rendered as / italic /. Different mail clients may render the HTML in different manners so you have less control over the final appearance of your message than plain text. 2. HTML mail is frequently used by scammers, spammers and phishers so it has an unsavoury air about it right from the start. It can contain viruses or malicious scripts that are not separate attachments, redirect the reader without his knowledge to malicious content, contain outside possibly malicious content, tracking content, and be rendered slowly or just plain badly. Since they are a security risk some places may strip the HTML or even reject the message outright. Mailing lists in particular will often reject HTML mail since it can be rendered as the HTML source code rather than just the text content. So to keep things simple, professionals keep to plain text for emails and if it is critical the recipient see something formatted, that it be included as an attached PDF or graphic where the sender will know exactly what the viewer will be seeing. On Wed, 7 Mar 2012, ebl7@chebucto.ns.ca wrote: > > > To Andrew Wright or Whom It May Concern: > > I know it's CCN not CNN. That was just an embarrassing typo with a > subconscious nod to the TV network CNN. I know I went on a bit of a rant > but I do appreciate the tight budget and other limitations faced by > Chebucto. > > I don't quite understand your comment about professional correspondence > being in plain text. There are many reasons why one would want to BOLD a > word or use /italics/ even in a professional letter. As you can see > (assuming it will appear this way to you), I have figured out HTML. This > will be helpful when submitting my poetry that sometimes contains words > in italics and I will be able to centre when that is how one of my poems > is supposed to appear. > > As for the features which I said seemed redundant to me, I have already > mucked around with them but maybe I will check them out again, following > your comments in your email to me. > > Erica Lewis >
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