[150360] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Customer Notification System.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (acv)
Wed Feb 22 11:42:29 2012
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:46:30 -0500
From: acv <acv@miniguru.ca>
To: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
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James Wininger <jwininger@ifncom.net>, nanog@nanog.org
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 08:34:49AM -0800, JC Dill wrote:
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> 99.999% of the time there is absolutely no benefit in the attachment. =20
> But by pushing customers to open attachments to get the content we are=20
> encouraging them to be complacent about opening all attachments, and=20
> that's a great way to end up getting infected with malware.
I agree whole heartedly. If the Marketing/Sales folks are stuck up on brand=
ing,
I'd explore sending a MIME multipart/alternative with branded HTML and a
plain text version with no degradation of actual content. And keep the whole
thing under 25-30KB total. Creating them is pretty easy with perl MIME::Lit=
e.
Alex
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