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Re:WTF is up with Dell? by RyanMcGreal on Thursday November 05, 2009 @02:47PM (#924583)
> So someone going through 20 e-mails of all text will pause on the one with a picture for no other reason than it's different.

So when every other marketing email has a picture of a recently-laid soul patch guy, it will make sense to send plain text again?

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Re:WTF is up with Dell? by SamAtt on Thursday November 05, 2009 @02:50PM (#924586)
The irony of my comment above is that I'm just the opposite. A picture of any kind embedded in the content is usually my cue to move along.
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Re:WTF is up with Dell? by blhack on Thursday November 05, 2009 @03:19PM (#924668)
Mine too. In fact, I think that there is even a filter for spamassassin that marks emails with embedded images as "spammy".
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