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Re: how to handle requests for HTML signatures
From: Tim Faircloth <Tim.Faircloth () GSW EDU>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 22:01:47 +0000
As a user that reads email in plain text, I firmly support the "don't use html signatures" sentiment. It looks like crap when it's converted to text. Long live the ASCII Ribbon campaign (http://www.asciiribbon.org/)! /tim -- Tim Faircloth System Administrator GSW IIT 229-931-5076 -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Charlie Derr Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 4:57 PM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] how to handle requests for HTML signatures We had a staff member (working in the Alumni Relations office) discover HTML signatures. Now other staff members are interested in also creating an HTML signature and are asking us for help. This is in order to include various web2.0 icons (facebook, twitter, etc...) at the bottom of the email so that email recipients can simply click on the links in order to connect to our Alumni presence on these various services. On the one hand, it's 2010 and I think that there's a need to try to embrace "the new reality" that includes these services because it's really a good way for our alumni to "gather" and be engaged (perhaps leading some alumns to continue to have a close relationship with the institution, providing all sorts of benefits, including potential future donations). So I want to support that as much as I possibly can. On the other hand, helping staff members craft HTML email is something I've always done only reluctantly. When the goal is to actually create clickable links that are "obscured" by recognizable icons, I feel that I can't in good conscience lend assistance to this task (for the obvious reasons that I hopefully don't have to explain in detail here -- mainly that it encourages users to click on email links -- something I've always tried to teach is a "danger"). Have any of you run into this issue? Any advice? Should I bite the bullet and assist with trying to at least have local versions of the icons (so that at least no content is fetched from the web in order to display the graphics)? thanks so very much in advance for any insight, ~c
Current thread:
- how to handle requests for HTML signatures Charlie Derr (Dec 09)
- Re: how to handle requests for HTML signatures Tim Faircloth (Dec 09)
- Re: how to handle requests for HTML signatures Valdis Kletnieks (Dec 09)
- Re: how to handle requests for HTML signatures Julian Y. Koh (Dec 15)
- Re: how to handle requests for HTML signatures Dan Oachs (Dec 09)
- Re: how to handle requests for HTML signatures Julian Y. Koh (Dec 09)
- Re: how to handle requests for HTML signatures Charlie Derr (Dec 10)
- Re: how to handle requests for HTML signatures Julian Y. Koh (Dec 10)
- Re: how to handle requests for HTML signatures Julian Y. Koh (Dec 09)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: how to handle requests for HTML signatures Rajewski, Jonathan (Dec 11)