Re: Email signature

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Aleksander Kmetec <aleksander(dot)kmetec(at)intera(dot)si>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Email signature
Date: 2003-11-14 15:41:57
Message-ID: 3FB4F7C5.8020508@commandprompt.com
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Hello,

It is my experience that it is only us geeks (read programmers) that
really hate html email. The majority of
people out there don't know or care about the difference.

Sincerely,

Joshua Drake

Justin Clift wrote:

> Hi Aleksander,
>
> Yep, there's no professional IT person that I know of that uses HTML
> email. Most consider it *rude* to be sent HTML email, or that the
> person sending it was clueless (or made a mistake in their settings
> somehow).
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
>
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>>
>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Aleksander,
>>>
>>>
>>>> I understend your concerns, but looking through my inbox I can see
>>>> that
>>>> everyone, except a small number of fellow programmers, is using
>>>> html format
>>>> for sending messges. It seems to be the standard here and plaintext
>>>> messages are pretty much out of the question for business
>>>> communication.
>>>> I'm not kidding - sometimes I even get asked why I keep replying in
>>>> plaintext! :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, different from here, then. In California, plaintext is still the
>>> standard for anything but advertisements.
>>
>>
>>
>> Same here ... my spam filters pick up nicely on HTML email and
>> shuffle it
>> off to where its supposed to ... no mans land :)
>>
>>
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>
>
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