HTML hyperlink in an email - missing on out, awkward on in

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fischinger DeleteThis @officeformac.com wrote:

> Is there really no way to gracefully embed a hyperlink into an email in
> entourage 2008? Both when receiving and sending, hyperlinks are broken out as
> an awkward visible link immediately after the phrase to be linked.<br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Scott

That's what you get for using HTML, I guess. Plain text is the preferred
method for emails by people who know the internet. It is efficient,
safe, virus-free, will be readable by any mail client at the other end,
doesn't impose your font, size, style preferences on others, and has far
smaller risk of being filtered out by spam filters.

HTML messages are generally two to four times larger for the same
message than plain text equivalents. That means not only do they take
longer to transfer over the net, contributing to network congestion,
they also take up more disk space on your computer, on the recipient's
computer, and on every server they hit along the way!

With HTML messages, the people who receive the messages have little or
no control over the text font, size, and style. They must read the
message in whatever font, size, and style *you* set when you created the
message. Plain Text messages, on the other hand, display in whatever
font, size, and style the recipient wishes.

HTML email is dangerous because it may contain links to external sites
that will do malicious things. For instance, a spammer can include a
link to an image, but this link contains a tag as data. The server at
the other end will get that request when your *read your email* and
based on the tag, will be able to confirm that you've read the email and
not only flag your email address as active/good, but also use your IP
with geographical location servers to assign a location code so that
they can then sell your email address to other spammers along with your
general location. If everyone stopped sending HTML emails, everyone
would block it, and then spammers would be left with very few means to
escape spam filters because their messages would have to b simple and
without tricks.

HTML email is wasteful, dangerous, and rude, IMO. It's just plain evil.

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