Roughtrax

[plumb bob]

I got my email ok

[tintin]

I got my email ok

Me too!!!!

And Matt, if he bothered to look at any of your posts he'd know you're one of our " I T Johnny's"

[MattF]

you're one of our " I T Johnny's"

Technically, I ain't. I deny all knowledge of anything computer related publically. I'n fact, in real life, (yes, I do have one), only two of my customers actually know that I'm a covert *nix admin, and that's only because one of my trade customers went and blabbed years ago. I deny all claims of knowledge in the computer area as a rule.

[plumb bob]

I deny all knowledge of anything computer related publically. I deny all claims of knowledge in the computer area as a rule.

Me too

[Bibs]

I'm not. Honestly. My tolerance levels for certain things are just becoming rather less tolerant, however.

You must have been as you didn't inlcude any smileys.....

[MattF]

Me too

[MattF]

You must have been as you didn't inlcude any smileys.....

You'll be making me awfully paranoid at this rate.

[Bibs]

You'll be making me awfully paranoid at this rate.

Well I've only ever read 1 post by yourself with no smileys before......you allllllways include smileys.

[MattF]

Well I've only ever read 1 post by yourself with no smileys before......you allllllways include smileys.

No I don't. You just imagine them. Honest.

[Bibs]

No I don't. You just imagine them. Honest.

Yeah yeah......

[Apache]

Matt 'Alienation is our business' F strikes again.

[MattF]

Matt 'Alienation is our business' F strikes again.

Whatever do you mean? A more amicable and pleasant person than I one could never hope to meet.

Seriously though, if someone is going to give out advice which is, firstly, incorrect, and secondly, would have most *nix chaps and just about every MTA admin worth his salt on God's green earth wanting to club him around the head with said advice, that is putting oneself in the path of criticism. To then use that annoying customer placation technique.......

[Apache]

Its obvious you weren't 'placated'

I dont understand the subject well enough to pick a fight, but as you know, spout shoite about subjects that I do understand, you better watch your back

[MattF]

I dont understand the subject well enough to pick a fight, but as you know, spout shoite about subjects that I do understand, you better watch your back

Html is horrendous stuff to use in e-mails. It's another of those things we have to blame the mighty Micro$hite for setting in action. Firstly, it imposes extra load on filter systems due to the fact that it has several times more content to scan. Secondly, it bloats the e-mail size by a large factor which in turn imposes more load on everything due to the extra size, as there's more information to transmit, hence, again, more server load and bandwidth usage. Thirdly, to suggest that as a general remedial measure is just lunacy. Encouraging the use of html e-mails is not smart. Even if you do toggle how a MUA views an e-mail, (provided it even has that functionality), it'll show it in the format you've selected, by stripping out the relevant text if needs be. There's a good reason why most *nix MUA's don't allow sending e-mails as html.

Granted, for marketing material, there's a tenuous argument for using html in the body content, but it is tenuous at best. A plain text summary with a link to the relevant URI is just as useful and doesn't broadcast cartloads of unnecessary data to everyone.

[BUSHWHACKER]

geek!