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<p dir="auto">Hear hear! It’s annoying trend for some folks (nobody here, thankfully) to include a 100KB mini-portrait of themselves as an attachment in every email they send, even for mailing lists.</p>
<p dir="auto">An interesting exercise is to examine the rate of growth of your annual email archives over the past few years. I see a worrisome geometric growth trend, even though I don’t think I’m processing significantly more “real” information. The storage requirements keep swelling, and it behooves us all to reduce the flashy clutter in our email, even if we are ultimately “battling against the tide.”</p>
<p dir="auto">On 5 Jan 2025, at 4:57, ARC MM via mailmate wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Johnny,</p>
<p dir="auto">Regarding the embedded graphics.</p>
<p dir="auto">We embed a link to a logo on our website so that we have some graphic in our signature</p>
<p dir="auto">This is ioho the best way to embed a graphic in an email and prevents that the graphics show-up in the email as attachments, something I don’t like at all (understatement !).<br>
Especially since it makes it “hard” to differentiate between clutter in the signature and real—important/valuable— attachments.</p>
<p dir="auto">Regards,</p>
<p dir="auto">Marc</p>
<p dir="auto">On 4 Jan 2025, at 23:30, Johnny via mailmate wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Thank you, Malcolm, Verdon, and John. And especially Bill for providing answers I was looking for. I've been on the net since 300 baud, acoustic coupler Arpanet connections, and get where you're coming from. I'm a lawyer and 80% of my peers use Outlook with HTML email, and many have graphics in their signatures. I'm essentially competing with them for credibility. <br>
Good news: I won't be emailing any of you in HTML. My emails to this list are in plain text. :)<br>
Better news?: After testing and consulting with a colleague, I'm going to use MailMate with Markdown. I will not specify any font in the email body. I know you all prefer no HTML, but does this at least improve things? I figured out how to make my current Apple Mail signature in HTML, and do have an HTML signature. But without any embedded graphics at present. <br>
One follow-up question: What does the Default Theme setting do? I've tried all the Themes and my emails look the same, regardless. Thank you again for your replies. _______________________________________________<br>
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<p dir="auto">Glenn P. Parker<br>
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