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Re:Use plaintext email by wongarsu on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @08:31AM (#20514505)
All of the reasons given against HTML emails hold at least equally well against PDF: it's a vector for phishing and tracking, ripe with client vulnerabilities, less accessible and not displayable on a terminal. For me as a reader having to read both an E-Mail and the attached PDF is also annoying, and many people will simply skip reading the PDF.
Re:Use plaintext email by throw0101a on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @08:53AM (#20514697)
> For me as a reader having to read both an E-Mail and the attached PDF is also annoying, and many people will simply skip reading the PDF.

See also embedding (e.g.) a JPEG in a Word document and then attaching that Word document to an e-mail.

Re:Use plaintext email by na85 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @09:16AM (#20514920)
I've seen so many Word or PPT documents with a single hyperlink in them, uploaded to SharePoint with filenames like "process_manual_2013_v3.2.doc"...

Ugh.

Re:Use plaintext email by throw0101a on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @10:17PM (#20522051)
Just ran across this: an HTML e-mail that is only a link (i.e., HTML <head> refresh):

* https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ch83sz/why_the_he...

Re:Use plaintext email by upofadown on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @09:07AM (#20514831)
If you have an employee generating phishing and tracking reference PDFs in your organization then you really have a personnel problem.