Re: emails in HTML format

From: R Rensch <randy_at_rensch.com>
Date: Sat 29 Jan 2000 11:54:18 -0500

ALAN CLIFTON WROTE:
> If you are using Outlook the graphics are
> embedded in the email.

Embedded? Or does an HTML image tag look to the
Internet in order to load the graphic? Beware of the
latter. If you have it set up so that the highlighted
message in your inbox pane is displayed in a preview
pane, and you're not on line at the time, your modem
starts dialing, confusing the hell out of many users,
annoying most of the rest, and costing the cost of a
local call if you don't drop everything and abort the
call within seconds. Mind you, that's just scanning the
inbox, not even "opening" the message.

All e-mail containing graphics therefore goes straight
into my spam bin without reading. I recently looked at
a sampling of it, and virtually none of the graphics
were anything more than window dressing.

Please, everyone, draw the distinction between HTML
e-mail (which can be formatted as much as you want) and
e-mail that contains a call for an image -- at worst,
one simply makes you unreadable. Even for people who
have naively opted to receive HTML, graphics can make
you a royal PITA!

Randall Rensch
Marketing Communications






Received on Sat Jan 29 2000 - 10:54:18 CST