Use plaintext email

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.

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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.

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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):

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