Re: Educating HP employees on the nettiquette

From: PhilThayer (phillip_thayer_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: 27 Feb 2004 10:08:28 -0800

JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@istop.com> wrote in message news:<403E508B.D48324E9@istop.com>...
> "Barry Treahy, Jr." wrote:
> > We are a media rich society and to expect people, be they inside or
> > outside your company, customer, or vendor base to stay with paper-tape,
> > teletypes, or punch cards because you don't feel e-mail should be
> > anything other than vanilla ASCII text, is a hopeless battle
>
>
> When a kid gets a new toy, it will use it all the time. Then, as he matures,
> he will use the toy only when he needs it.
>
> Sending HTML emails adds absolutely nothing. "Kids" think it is way cool to
> be able to send emails with text in blue, red, yellow, and have some huge or
> very tiny letters and different fonts. But when they mature, they will realise
> that this adds absolutely nothing to the contents.
>
> Yes, there are times when you do need to include attachements which are in
> various formats. But for the vast majority of times, a simple text-only
> message more than suffices.
>
> By default, people should be sending text only, and only use attachements and
> richer text format when it is really necessary.
>
> If Microsoft had followed that established nettiquette in its software
> defaults, it wouldn't had suffered so many viri and worms. It is because
> people are sending "rich" contents and MS's software treating it as plain text
> (in terms of security) that there are so many problems costing industry
> billions in lost productivity due to viri.

Formatted email is valuable to many people. Whether the format is
HTML or a MS-Whatever attachment. Whether people want to believe it
or not MS is an industry leader in computers. I would bet that at a
minimum 75% of office systems are running on MS based platforms. So,
that means that 25% of the industry is using a non standard platform
for their office management environments. It't the anti-MS
hackeristas that cause the excessive viri and worms that are currently
hitting systems anc costing the industry billions in lost productivity
not to mention profits due to the purchasing of expensive Anti-Virus
software. How in the world can you blame Viri and Worms on a company
that is setting the industry standards.

PT

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Seeing trouble in HD.
    ... "IF THEY WANT A GLIMPSE OF THEIR own future, Hollywood executives ... Industry Assn. ... When the industry itself can't pick one format and market it by clearly ... new to consumers - there was no earlier home video recording tech to be ...
    (alt.video.dvd)
  • Re: Just how dead are SACD and DVD-A?
    ... >>> and more indignities as the music industry tries harder. ... Naxos do things differently and effectively cut prices of some excellent CDs ... > continue to play CDs as well as the range of DVDs because that's what's ... > MP3 as imminent curtains for the CD as a format. ...
    (uk.rec.audio)
  • Re: Slipstreaming ... even deeper
    ... > "everytime I format my computer to flush ... > should'nt be seeing any viri, unless of course you access dubious areas. ... >> I actually installed Symantec Ghost trying to make a disk image. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Slipstreaming ... even deeper
    ... > "everytime I format my computer to flush ... > should'nt be seeing any viri, unless of course you access dubious areas. ... >> I actually installed Symantec Ghost trying to make a disk image. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support)
  • Re: Encoding of primitives for binary serialization
    ... If it does not have to be binary, you can use an existing format, for ... "The most significant trend in the US industry has been the decline in the amount ...
    (comp.lang.java.programmer)
Loading