[access-uk] Re: E-mail Guidance
- From: "Ray's Home" <rays-home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:58:55 +0100
Thanks for that informative post. (This being a 'top posting'
you'll see Tinks original below.)
I'd only add that one article I read on the net mentioned as well
as plain text being much prefered, that line length should be
kept to sixty or seventy characters at most. His argument being
that longer line lengths often did not fit propperly in peoples'
email clients or else you got the mess of shortened lines in some
messages. Speaking of which, does anyone know how to avoid those
anoying short lines, often every other line? And much more
important , how to reformat to get rid of them?
Ray
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tink Watson" <tink@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 2:46 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: E-mail Guidance
Sam,
Much of this comes down to personal taste, even the oldest of
Internet
conventions have largely been superceded by people's own
preferences.
For my part, I'd advise using plain text to send and receive
email
messages, but I've outlined the pros and cons of both plain text
and html
emails below.
Plain text emails are smaller to send and receive, because
they don't
allow the inclusion of graphics or web page style formatting. For
this
reason, they are more secure than HTML email messages,
particularly when you
are on the receiving end of one, because there is no place to
hide possible
email nasties.
HTML emails are slightly larger to send and receive, because
the allow
for the inclusion of graphics and web page style formatting. It
is possible
for malware or unwanted code to be triggered via an HTML email,
particularly
if you are on the receiving, rather than sending end of things.
Another classic argument you'll come across with email, is
whether to
top post, bottom post or integrate. Again, I've given a bit of an
outline of
each below:
Top posting is what happens on most VI related lists. When
replying to
an email, you hit the reply button and just begin typing at the
top. We find
this easier because of the way our assistive technologies work.
Bottom posting used to be the convention on the Internet,
particularly
in the days of UseNet, but it has now fallen by the wayside a
little for all
but a hardy few. This involves hitting the reply button on an
email and
typing your text in immediately under the person's original email
text.
Integrating is a combination of the two. You customarily
start typing at
the top of the email, but either cut and paste quotes of the
original into
the main body of your text, or add your text at various points
throughout
the original mail.
My personal rule of thumb is to top post, except where I
think a brief
reminder of the original post might be useful to the reader, in
which case
I'll cut and paste the relevant quote to a suitable point in my
reply. Most
of the VI lists are fairly easy going on this, but I've come
across some
newsgroups and mailing lists, where this is a sore topic of
contention.
Ultimately, keep emails short, to the point, as friendly as
possible.
Add in graphics if they are needed, but otherwise try to avoid
doing so. Use
plain text, rather than HTML by convention and use top posting
when
replying, except if a quote would be useful. At least, that's
pretty much
the way I do it. *Smile.
Tink.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howie, Sam" <Sam.Howie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Access-Uk (E-mail)" <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 2:21 PM
Subject: [access-uk] E-mail Guidance
Hi All
I have been asked by a colleague to give some advice in terms of
writing
e-mail messages. Does anyone know of any guidance around about
writing
e-mails in terms of size, best style of text to use what about if
they
wanted to include pictures and so on.
Any advice will be appreciated
Cheers
Sam
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