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Originally Posted by Hitch
So, ApK, you have my complete and total sympathies! When did people just develop first-line-skimming? Is that new or was it always like this?
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As mentioned by ApK, I think it's a matter of the email client.
When I was in the corporate world, we read email in MS Outlook, with mail coming from an Exchange Server instance. Outlook could be set the preview mail and show the first couple of lines in the Inbox. At one employer, that had to be turned off. There were an assortment of attacks that could be sent in email and triggered when the email was opened. Outlook would have to
open the email to
display the preview, even if the recipient didn't open the message to see the full content, and the attack would proceed. Until we had a block for those attacks, no previews.
My pet peeve is "top posting", where replies to email are placed
above the mail that they are replies to, and you may have to dig down though a long message to understand what the top post is a reply
to.
I create interspersed replies, trimming stuff I'm not replying to to make everyone's life easier, but I seem to be a lone voice crying in the wilderness about stuff like this.
I blame Outlook for that, to, as top posts were its default. And made more annoying by defaulting to Rich Text or HTML in messages. At one employer, I discovered posts I sent to a tech mailing list were bouncing. The list was "plain text only". I had laboriously configured my Outlook client to default to plain text, and that was what I sent, so WTF? It turned out that Exchange Server was undoing my good work and what it sent out on my behalf wasn't plain text. The Exchange Admin had to dig a bit to get it to stop doing that.
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Dennis