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Equinux has released a stationery pack to help Leopard Mail users customize their e-mail. more

[pwrbkdude]

They even have a TPS Report Cover Sheet! Sweeeeeeeet!

[folklore]

Honestly, this whole "stationary" thing has to be one of the worst things to happen to email in a long time. I've seen the junk other email clients (mostly for the PC) put out, and I want no part of it.
Maybe I'll think differently about it once Leopard arrives (my copy is due for delivery today).

[alansky]

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Honestly, this whole "stationary" thing has to be one of the worst things to happen to email in a long time. I've seen the junk other email clients (mostly for the PC) put out, and I want no part of it.
Maybe I'll think differently about it once Leopard arrives (my copy is due for delivery today).

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Why should all email have to be black, white and boring just because there are tasteless clods in the world? Should desktop publishing apps also be abolished because most people use them to produce frightful rubbish? I don't think so.
Apple has made it much, much easier for designers to produce attractive email. Every business that utilizes email will benefit as long as they have the good sense to hire a real designer instead of mucking about with tools they don't understand.

[mrbach]

Yeah, I so look forward to all the HTML mail. HTML is shutoff by default on my email to block all those blinky smilies and animated cats that people have nothing else better to send. I recommend to my PC clients to keep it shutoff as well because allowing HTML into your mail is just inviting trouble (virus on PC).
Spammers use HTML to track if you have a valid email address. When you download the animated walrus, they know they have a keeper.
If you are a business sending out HTML mail, be prepared to get filtered out.

[folklore]

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Why should all email have to be black, white and boring just because there are tasteless clods in the world? Should desktop publishing apps also be abolished because most people use them to produce frightful rubbish? I don't think so.

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This particular tasteless clod facilitates classes for a distance learning master's degree program. I get 100's of emails a week. Adding graphics impedes performance, requires more storage space, and tends to distract from the purpose of email.
Email should actually communicate something, not merely look pretty. Being able to use simple formatting (bold, italic, underline, indent, etc) is fine since it happens to facilitate communication. Adding a background image does not.

[bubbamac]

I sent some to myself from the Apple Store. They're not HTML mail - at least not in the sense that Mail.app sees it. All images load immediately, and I also block HTML email. It appears that all the images come with the message - file sizes were in the 350-450kb range. A bit large for the 15 lines of text that I sent, eh? If I can find a small one, I might use it, but for now the ones offered by Apple are quite large and don't fit what I do, usually.

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Yeah, I so look forward to all the HTML mail. HTML is shutoff by default on my email to block all those blinky smilies and animated cats that people have nothing else better to send. I recommend to my PC clients to keep it shutoff as well because allowing HTML into your mail is just inviting trouble (virus on PC).
Spammers use HTML to track if you have a valid email address. When you download the animated walrus, they know they have a keeper.
If you are a business sending out HTML mail, be prepared to get filtered out.

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[Ronald_Schoedel]

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This particular tasteless clod facilitates classes for a distance learning master's degree program. I get 100's of emails a week. Adding graphics impedes performance, requires more storage space, and tends to distract from the purpose of email.

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Do you seriously believe that hundreds of your master's students will begin using Stationery to send email to you, though?
I wouldn't expect so. People, in general, know when to send cutesy email and when to send "to-the-point" plain text email, and I know when I communicate with my professors or other professionals in a professional capacity, I use standard black text on a white background. But if I want to send some cutesy pictures of my children to their grandparents, or a newsletter-type email to my PTA email list members, Mail Stationery is wholly appropriate for that...would you not say?

[Dan Frakes]

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People, in general, know when to send cutesy email and when to send "to-the-point" plain text email

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Oh, if only it were so /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
I can't tell you how often I get emails that contain difficult-to-read HTML, indecipherable "styled" text, and useless attachments. And as email clients have "enhanced" their capabilities in this respect, the ratio of useful to useless information in emails has steadily decreased.
I'm not inherently against the ability to send formatted/styled email; as you mentioned, it can be fun for sending stuff to family members (assuming they can actually read it, which is another issue). But the bigger problem -- at least in the business world -- is that many people seem to think that because others are now using formatted email, they need to make their own emails more and more obnoxious just to get noticed.
(Don't even get me started about how many people send me email messages with their contact information attached in the form of an image, or with useless "spacer" or "blank" images attached /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif)

[pubb]

HTML mail messages are basically web pages. Web pages are rendered very badly by lots of devices. Recently, I checked my mail using Safari on a friend's iPhone and this one particular message was a single line about 30 pages wide. It drove me out of my mind.
Pubb

[supercanuck]

While it is unfortunate that many people don't utilize proper etiquette when business emailing, there are those of us out there that do know when and where the "boring" standard email is appropriate.
The stationary feature is for people like me, who has more friends and family than colleagues and can appreciate the aesthetic value and sentiment of a nicely crafted email.
We're all going to get spam whether we like it or not. At least an email using the stationary feature is sent with good intentions.
By the way, I sent an email to myself using the stationary--from one mail account to another--and the email uploaded quickly.