[Hidden-tech] Pasting a file into an email

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 09 Feb 2014 14:59:27 -0500 "R. David Murray" <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, 09 Feb 2014 08:30:25 -0500, "Todd M. LeMieux - (413) 747-9321" <todd at toddlemieux.com> wrote:
> > My web experience has taught me that usually there's never a guarantee 
> > of how something you send will show up in someone's inbox.
> > 
> > This is because the recipient has control over how their email software 
> > displays html content, etc. And while most people do have images turned 
> > on by default there are surely many who don't.
> > 
> > And if they don't, it doesn't matter how you format your graphic or 
> > email because if they've turned that off then they won't see embedded 
> > images (linked images are a different story).
> > 
> > If I am operating on dated info, perhaps someone on the list will chime 
> > in with an update.
> 
> I don't see embedded images or html unless I make a special effort.
> I do it this way on purpose: it is much more secure, and prevents
> people from tracking me via embedded image (or other) links in
> the html.  I'm sure I'm not alone.

And I *purposefully* use an E-Mail client that *lacks* support for HTML
rendering. I use a filter on my E-Mail server that strips off the HTML part of
multipart/alternitive messages and rejects pure HTML E-Mail -- I never see
E-Mail that is HTML and never see embedded images. Sometime a mal-formed
message get through, in which case I end up with the HTML *source* in my
E-Mail display.

So, yes, there are some people who see something completely different (if
anything) from what what might be expected when you send 'formatted' or 'rich
text' or 'HTML' E-Mail messages. Note that 'HTML' E-Mail gets a positive score
for being spam (meaning it might be spam) by most spam filtering software, so
HTML E-Mail has a greater chance of landing in spam folders as well, so even
people who have HTML capable E-Mail clients may not see it. Also, one of the
*key features* of HTML is that the rendering software (eg web browser) is free
to make its own choices as to how to render the HTML -- HTML is *never*
rendered in stone -- there is lots of variation in how a HTML rendering
engine actually renders a given HTML document -- this is by design. If you
have something where the *exact* rendering is important, send a PDF as an
attachment.

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