[pmmail-list] Another blank message (HTML)

[Dave Hathaway]

I haven't commented on this issue, but the embedded message within the 
email was really offensive to me:

"If you are reading this message then you have received our message in 
an e-mail program that does not accept HTML/Web e-mail messages. If 
you would like to receive our messages, please download your future e-
mails with an HTML/Web enabled e-mail program or reply to this message 
for further instructions and help. Thank you."

It implies a fault on my end that I choose not to become party to 
their selfish and SPAM-centric ways.  I hate HTML email, in part 
because it provides a means for SPAMmers to track whether my email is 
valid (and to then turn around and resell my now-proven-valid email).  
How?  Embed an image that is downloaded from their server and tells 
them I have read the mail.  Many, if not most, commercial HTML 
messages contain these things, sometimes with a pixel-sized GIF that 
you don't even know is there.  HTML mail represents a dangerous 
invasion of my privacy.  It should be discouraged instead of 
supported.

I think PMMail handles HTML mail sufficiently well by showing me 
bolding and other text formatting.  If it starts displaying the images 
without me being able to turn them off I will be forced to discontinue 
its use.

Dave

On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 15:00:29 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:

>On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 08:37:38 -0400, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>
>>Attached is a message containing HTML.  The content was completely
>>hidden from me.  I'm using .2360
>>
>
>I'm not surprised, the mail contains nothing but image tags pointing 
to
>images on a server somewhere identified by a dotted quad address and 
a
>bit of text telling you how to unsubscribe from their list. I'm using
>2360 and I could see this text without difficulty.
>
>I can't see how PMMail can do anything but display what is there, if
>you want the pix you need to load it into a web browser.
>
>-- 
>Brian Morrison                                  
bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk
>              do you know how far this has gone?
>               just how damaged have I become?
>                                      'Even Deeper' by Nine Inch 
Nails




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