Gimme some help (to insomniacs and early risers out there)
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matgbMy company is going through a process of corporate branding and agreed styles. Given some of the people we employ, in my opinion, this is a Good Thing. Unfortunately, sometimes the agreed styles aren't what I would choose. Sometimes, they're well, a Bad Thing.
By about mid afternoon tomorrow, I and one colleague have to have enough evidence together to convince the bosses that using rich text formatting on emails with embedded company logos for correspondence is a Bad Idea.
1) Compatability issues.
2) Bandwidth and filesize issues
3 [the big one]) Spam filters.
I know I've read a study online,r ecently, which criticised Amazon and similar for sending order confirmations in rich text with embedded pictures as these would trigger many spam filters. I also know this to be true, as I found 3 emails from Amazon in my junkmail folders.
Can I find it online? Can I buggery. I tried searching using amazon in the string, but half the web links to Amazon so that didn't help.
So, any concerned citizens of the net out there that can assist in my research in any way, very much appreciated. Email should be plain text, anything else is unnecessary wastage. Why is it hard to explain this to people? We do business all over the world, we have no idea what our clients use to read their email, nor do we know what campatibiltity issues may be created, and we CANNOT afford to have our messages trigger spam filters.
On an entirely unrelated note; can anyone recommend some software I can download that I can use to store CDs as MP3s on my harddrive and play them? I don't need to download stuff, I can just store it and play it, right?
By about mid afternoon tomorrow, I and one colleague have to have enough evidence together to convince the bosses that using rich text formatting on emails with embedded company logos for correspondence is a Bad Idea.
1) Compatability issues.
2) Bandwidth and filesize issues
3 [the big one]) Spam filters.
I know I've read a study online,r ecently, which criticised Amazon and similar for sending order confirmations in rich text with embedded pictures as these would trigger many spam filters. I also know this to be true, as I found 3 emails from Amazon in my junkmail folders.
Can I find it online? Can I buggery. I tried searching using amazon in the string, but half the web links to Amazon so that didn't help.
So, any concerned citizens of the net out there that can assist in my research in any way, very much appreciated. Email should be plain text, anything else is unnecessary wastage. Why is it hard to explain this to people? We do business all over the world, we have no idea what our clients use to read their email, nor do we know what campatibiltity issues may be created, and we CANNOT afford to have our messages trigger spam filters.
On an entirely unrelated note; can anyone recommend some software I can download that I can use to store CDs as MP3s on my harddrive and play them? I don't need to download stuff, I can just store it and play it, right?
