Email with long attachments, often with "cute photos" or "funnies" are a royal pain when I just want to quickly check my email. For anyone on a dial-up connection, the computer stalls (often for minutes) while the attachment is down-loading.
Many are unaware their email's are being sent to everybody twice? Once as simple text but with an attachment which is the same thing but with HTML codes. Obviously, it makes the number of bytes in the email more than twice as big, hence slower for all the recipients to receive; and adds zero information. Plus the receiver has to check the attachments to see nothing new.
This happens when you have HTML checked in Outlook Express. You can turn it off by going to Tools, Options, Send and removing the check for Send as HTML. Or better: checking "Plain Text"
Having HTML must be the Outlook Express default, because I see email from so many with the useless attachment.
Don't get me wrong I like HTML for web pages. I wish more people would put there "nice things" on a web page and just send me the link in their email. Writing HTML and uploading to a web site is easy. I think I will put a series of pages about what it takes to create a simple web page.
For a while now, I have put the following signature on the email I create:
Cheers, LaFarr New: Emails > 100K are now deleted at server.The following is an email I received. It expresses the problem much better than I ever could!
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Hi LaFarr,
What a great idea! I don't know if Juno offers such an option, however, at least I can tell some of my frequents senders of massive files about this approach. Many people don't have a high speed Internet connection!
I choose to have dial-up for its low cost but it's frustrating to wait, as I recently actually did, 19 minutes to download a huge file attached to an Email that, when it was all over, I couldn't even open because it was in some software that I didn't have! And to download that software would have probably required another 30 minutes of waiting. Then it might not have functioned on my older version of Windows. And also it would have probably brought me the latest viruses and spyware from Bolivia and Pakistan. So, real Email from real people is welcome. Actually, I have less compliant about outright spam - it's usually a small file and easily deleted - than about Email from my legitimate friends who think it's cool to send everyone they know the complete videos of every Blue Angels flight performance from 1987. Who wants it?!!! Again, what a great idea! |
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