[e-farmacos] e-farmacos y correo HTML

["Haak, Hilbrand" <haakh@chd-consultants.nl>]

E-farmacos: e-farmacos y correo HTML
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[Hilbrand Kaak (moderador de la lista de discusion 'e-drug') solicito
que incluyeramos este mensaje en la lista de discusion e-farmacos. Son
algunas normas para tratar de facilitar la tarea de los moderadores de
las listas de discusion. En el caso especifico de e-farmacos, os
recuerdo que para evitar problemas de compatibilidad y la aparicion de
caracteres ilegibles, los mensajes deberian mandarse sin acentos y sin
caracteres especiales como la letra enhe o la ce con cedilla. Gracias,
AF]


Apreciados lectores de e-farmacos,

De vez en cuando los moderadores han llamado la atencion sobre los
inconvenientes de los mensajes en formato HTML y los problemas que
suponen este tipo de mensajes a la hora de preparar los mensajes
correctamente formateados para e-farmacos.

Existe una pagina web muy util (http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html)
que presenta una relacion de todos los motivos por los que es mejor
evitar los mensajes en HTML. A continuacion incluyo un resumen del
texto. Al final del mismo hay algunas indicaciones claras sobre como
eliminar la version HTML de la mayoria de los programas de correo
electronico (Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Apple's Mail.app, y
Netscape Communicator). 

Y la ultima linea: por favor, desactivad HTML de vuestro correo
electronico...

Gracias,

Hilbrand Haak
E-drug co-moderador


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Why HTML in E-Mail is a Bad Idea (copied as fair use. HH)

HTML e-mail is one of the uglier things Microsoft has wrought upon the
Internet, and this page exists to explain some of the reasons. It's not
that there are not some nice things about HTML e-mail, just
that the reasons below far outweigh any benefits it provides. HTML in
e-mail is a bad idea ...

Because HTML is for making web pages and plain text is for simple
communications. If you're looking to create a web page or write a book,
fine. But e-mail messages are not web pages or books. e-mail was
designed for simple messaging. Anything else detracts, rather than adds
to its core functionality. As Andy Roony said, "E-mail is simple. Like
the pencil, it just works." Well, e-mail is not simple -- and it doesn't
always work -- when HTML is involved. 

Because it introduces compatibility problems with text-based clients
like the hundreds of thousands of Pine users out there.

Because it can introduce security issues and trojan horses -- it's a
gateway to danger as any Outlook user can tell you. HTML can include any
number of scripts, dangerous links, controls, etc. 

Because it doubles the size of e-mails as clients "handle" the issue by
sending out plain text and HTML versions of the same e-mail. 

Because people spend more time choosing a font that the recipient
probably doesn't even have on their system than in choosing their words
carefully. 

Because it wreaks havoc with any mailing list that sends out digests. 

Because it violates the e-mail standards and protocols unnecessarily.
Most users never use any of the "advanced" options and those who do
typically go overboard -- usually spammers who use HTML's fancy styles
as a way to garner attention. The only possible reasonable purposes for
HTML e-mail are simple text styles such as bold and italics which can be
expressed _in_ *other* WAYS that are /universally/ readable.

Because it encourages companies to think it's OK to do things like
include code that will let them know if you're reading their e-mail.
This actually happened to a friend, who received an e-mail from infobeat
asking why he wasn't reading their daily news e-mails. This is a gross
violation of privacy. 

Because its presence, and the public's complicity with it, encourages
the abuse of advertising bloat in your inbox. Knowing they can do
eye-catching banner ads, spammers and corporations (such as Barnes and
Noble) will fill half a page with ads for this and that, creating visual
and mental clutter we'd all be better off
without. We get enough of that on the web - we don't need it in our
inboxes as well. Some would say that advertising is heavily reliant on
visual elements to be successful. In most cases, this is true; but not
in the computer industry.


How To Fix the Problem 
Most HTML-capable e-mail clients will let you disable HTML e-mail
globally (for all messages) or on a recipient-by-recipient basics.
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Here's how to do it in MS Outlook and Outlook Express:  
Pull down Tools | Options. Select the Send tab. Look at the section
labeled "Mail Sending Format." Change the radio button from "HTML" to
"Plain Text." 

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For Outlook 2000, it is: 
Tools | Options | Click on the Mail format tab | select Plain Text from
the Pulldown box, then click OK.

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Here's how to do it in Hotmail 
You can ensure that you're not sending out HTML email from Hotmail
accounts by not using the "Rich Text" option in the message compose
window. If you dig around in the options, there's a setting that lets
you turn off the Rich Text bar for all messages. 

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Here's how to do it in Eudora (all types), version 4 and up: 
>From the Tools menu, choose Options. 
In the Category list, choose Styled Text. 
Choose the "Send plain text only" radio button. 
Clear the "Send the signature with styles" check box. 
Clear the "Ask me each time" check box. 
To strip HTML from a message you are currently viewing in Eudora:

With the cursor somewhere on the message body, press Ctrl-A to select
the entire message text, or choose Select All from the Edit menu. From
the Edit menu, point to the Text cascading menu, and choose Clear
Formatting. Alternately, the Select All and Clear Formatting commands
can be added to the tool bar to simplify this task. 

Something that can be done in Eudora to cut down on the annoyance of
others' HTML is to uncheck all of the codes in
Special:Settings...:Styled Text. There's a section at the bottom of that
panel, "When receiving styles, pay attention to"; unchecking everything
makes HTML mail look like plaintext. 

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Here's how to do it in Netscape Communicator: 

Click Edit | Preferences 
Click "Mail & Newsgroups" (click the "+" to expand)
Click Formatting
Select "Use the plain text editor to compose messages" 

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Here's how to do it in Apple's Mail.app: 

Pull down Mail | Preferences 
Select "Composing" in the top icon row 
Change "Default message format" to "Plain Text" 
Close Preference panel. 
You can also disable the display of HTML email by going to the Viewing
icon and deselecting "Download all images, animations and other HTML
attachments." 


[NOTA: Mensaje sin acentos ni caracteres especiales.]
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