“The European Union’s Competition Commission … has crippled HTML email in Microsoft Office … it’s a huge problem for email spammers — sorry, marketeers — who are currently agonising over the change.”

Jack Schofield’s post totally misses the point. First, HTML e-mails aren’t generally used by spammers. When, for example, was the last time you received an e-mail for “V1ag8a” in anything other than plain text format? And second, crippling HTML e-mails simply reduces the user experience. I’d rather have the option to receive a nicely laid-out e-mail from companies such as Yahoo! or Microsoft. His article is here.

Posted Sunday, January 14th, 2007 @ 12:36 pm
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