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Thread ID: 58355 2005-05-29 02:37:00 Got another sucker with HTML Email ERR (8231) PC World Chat
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359526 2005-06-01 23:12:00 ............ and resize the darn pics of the ankle biters / new puppy etc before sending too. Downloading picture attachments straight from someone's camera is a pain on dial up. Better still put that darn pic of the ankle biter (http://pugwash.orcon.net.nz) up on some of the webspace the ISPs all gave us, and link to it in the emails, thus giving the user the option of looking at your collction of pix :D personthingy (1670)
359527 2005-07-07 14:55:00 I just got a "Normal" HTML Email that uses HTML in it, pop off to

www.incredimail.com

Was the URL given at the bottom of the Email page 		ERR (8231)
359528 2005-07-07 15:48:00 Incredimail is a law unto itself, it seems to me.
But I can understand its popularity, as it looks great fun to New Users of email.
They often have no idea of the technicalities involved, or the problems they can create.
(Yes, I downloaded it with enthusiasm myself.
Luckily, comments I found when joining PressF1 soon after showed the error of my ways...)
And even when the novelty of sending fancy add-ins wears off, they just don't realise their recipients are still getting junk.
I told one of my relatives I was sick of the distracting line of large flashing/dancing characters below every email he'd sent me for months. He had no idea what I was talking about - until I showed him on my machine what he was sending to everyone.
And this is a computer-savvy guy in other respects... 		Laura (43)
359529 2005-07-08 02:52:00 I would use nothing else but HTML,so you see it's a matter of taste. Cicero (40)
359530 2005-08-02 19:39:00 OK I think I got it now


Get the source on the HTML Email,


copy it,


Convert the Email from HTML format to plain text format .


Paste the source code .



So they get a lot of HTML code, as seen below,


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4 . 0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML xmlns=" . w3 . org/TR/REC-html40"" target="_blank">www . w3 . org xmlns: v =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com: vml" xmlns: o =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com: office: office" xmlns:w =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com: office:word" xmlns:st1 =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com: office:smarttags"><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META content="MSHTML 6 . 00 . 2800 . 1106" name=GENERATOR><!--[if !mso]>
<STYLE>v\:* {
BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML)
}
o\:* {
BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML)
}


I cut the rest off



then send it back with your comments in the subject line "WHAT??" 		ERR (8231)
359531 2005-08-02 20:25:00 To win a one-man campaign against the uneducated hordes you need to be a Ghandi or other big time crusader ERR.

Otherwise all you will do is P-off the odd correspondent and the rest either won't notice or won't give a toss. There is a limited demand for Don Quixotes these days, better to suffer the infidels and concentrate of doing your own thing the way you like it.

Setting a good example is more productive than being an irritant, and sending white text on a white background is cute the first time but petty thereafter.

There is an old but apt saying that usually takes this form: "God grant me Serenity to accept what I cannot change, Courage to change the things that I can and Wisdom to know the difference."

Cheers

Billy 8-{) 		Billy T (70)
359532 2005-08-02 22:31:00 Amen to Billy's words. :cool: Scouse (83)
359533 2005-08-02 23:50:00 To win a one-man campaign against the uneducated hordes you need to be a Ghandi or other big time crusader ERR.

Otherwise all you will do is P-off the odd correspondent and the rest either won't notice or won't give a toss. There is a limited demand for Don Quixotes these days, better to suffer the infidels and concentrate of doing your own thing the way you like it.

Setting a good example is more productive than being an irritant, and sending white text on a white background is cute the first time but petty thereafter.

There is an old but apt saying that usually takes this form: "God grant me Serenity to accept what I cannot change, Courage to change the things that I can and Wisdom to know the difference."

Cheers

Billy 8-{)
*Comments removed by Moderator: Chilling_Silence*

48 hours for personal insults. I hate to do it but you made me.... 		ninja (1671)
359534 2005-08-03 00:58:00 Educate people?

Signitures are good for this. If the hint is given 100 times it sometimes gets in. My pet hate is people bradcasting my address in bulk email. Having the signiture below reduced this, but of course i still get the occational chain letter from those who should know better.

HTML mail irrates me less, but i'd still prefer it to go away unless done for a better reason than "default settings".

Perhaps we should both add "plain text e-mail preffered" to our signitures?

[i]--
Cheers♪♫♪!
♪♫♪ Chris.
+64 21xxx xxx
www.millerton.co.nz (http://www.millerton.co.nz)
ICQ#xxxxxxx
P.O.Box xxxxx Phillipstown ChCh NZ
xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.co.nz is my personal address.
Please do not publish it by placing the address in the "to:" or "cc:" fields
of any bulk or group email.
:-){/i]

PS forum software added the HTML tags to my sig. I allways send mail as plain text. :DPeople with signatures like yours annoy me (you personally don't annoy me, just the sig).Why?? for one... if I wanted ya damn ICQ number or msn addy or whatever I WILL ASK FOR IT.
The other reason... if one of your emails ends up in the wrong hands, consider yourself an easy victim (of spam, or hacking).
I know of one other person with a sig similar to yours, its annoying seeing a sig this long with only 2 lines of text in the email itself.

I am another one who constantly tells another family member not to forward my email address to every Tom, Dick, & Harry they know on the net.
Alas, it falls on deaf ears 		Myth (110)
359535 2005-08-03 05:07:00 People with signatures like yours annoy me (you personally don't annoy me, just the sig).Why?? for one... if I wanted ya damn ICQ number or msn addy or whatever I WILL ASK FOR IT.If you think thats bad, you'd really cringe at the amount of dribble above the signiture! :p personthingy (1670)
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