Re: Fixed-Width Character (Signature) Artwork

Crazy Horse wrote:

Also, and importantly, to the extent that I'll use it, it would probably
be in the occasional e·mail, not a regular thing... and not in Usenet
newsgroups.

<drifting drifting drifting OT>

Sig ascii art in email has an 'overlap' with html email in a sense.

If you send html email, you need to be knowing how the recipient is
configured to render html and whether or not the recipient 'appreciates'
(as in doesn't appreciate) html mail.

That being said, if one does know exactly how the recipient's
mail-handling html-rendering is being performed, there may be some rare
occasion that it is useful to send html mail instead of conveying the
information in some other fashion.

If you send ascii art sig email, you need to be knowing if the recipient
is configured to monospace their font, or if they have the capability to
'flip' into a monospaced mode and if the recipient 'appreciates' sig ascii
art. Those bars are much much lower and easily achieved than the html
bars.

Just yesterday I was 'lecturing' a friend who sent out an email attachment
to some number of 'undisclosed recipients' which was a .pps attachment.
The day before he had sent me a .docx attachment which he had received
from someone which he couldn't handle.

My lecture was about how there were some similarities between the mistake
his .docx sender made, and the possible mistake he had made depending upon
his recipients ability to handle the .pps.


--
Mike Easter

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