Re: Google

In message <dg1val$kke$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Keith F. Lynch <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Bernard Peek <bap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
This particular agency uses Macs for development and Linux for their
mail system.  They don't have any PCs in the place.  So all of their
code gets tested on those platforms.  They seemed surprised when I
told them that the newsletter they designed wasn't compatible with
Microsoft Outlook.  (The recent security fix that stopped Outlook
downloading web bugs broke the newsletter.)


If a well known agency can produce code that is incompatible with
the software that 90% of their customers are using then anything is
possible.  I am in awe of such staggering incompetence.


Hopefully, it's gradually becoming rarer.  I gather that their email
newsletters are in HTML rather than plain text?  Plain text should be
compatible with everything.  And pretty much everyone is discarding
all HTML email unread, since nearly all of it is spams, viruses, or
other bloated garbage.  Sounds like they're a dinosaur who somehow
temporarily escaped the K-T/dot-bomb catastrophe that opened the
world to more advanced modern life.

Lots of people are discarding mail unread but most still accept it. Most business mail these days is HTML from one copy of Outlook to another. I had to monitor the company's spam filters and I don't recall seeing any text-only messages other than spam.



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Once more in search of cognoscenti
Bernard Peek
bap@xxxxxxxxxx

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