On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 10:30 -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: > Christopher A. Williams wrote, On 12/17/2008 06:15 AM: > > I guess you have the privilege of not having to deal with "the great > > unwashed" who routinely send and want to receive HTML e-mail. They also > > don't know that the business norm (imposed originally bu MS Outlook) of > > top-posting is also bad email etiquette. Hope you don't have to deal > > with them either, but most of the one I deal with have titles that start > > with the letter "C" or "V" - and they write very big checks. They are > > less inclined to write one with your name on it if you openly refuse to > > communicate in the language and style they are accustomed to... > > Except when the CIO of the community you are talking about has decided that > from a security standpoint having an email client render RTF and HTML have > become unsafe. > > Some businesses have now intentionally modified their email clients to NOT > render RTF and HTML, and have made it such that to enable them is a firing > violation of company policy. > > i.e. don't count on being able to say "the blue text in bullet three is the > important part" anymore. ...And we all know that, while such exceptions exist, they are indeed the exceptions and not the general rule. In fact the only CIO positions I know of that would border on such a policy are US Navy. In the corporate world, such a policy would likely get the CIO fired by the CEO and the Board... -- ====================== "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
