A common task of sysadmins is to generate email messages and send them out to a group of people. Reminders about upcoming system downtime or tips to help users make better use of their Unix accounts ...

Many people are sending HTML e-mail for no obvious reason or benefit. HTML e-mail can be recognized by colored backgrounds or typefaces. It sometimes has designs or other decorations in the messages.

They insist on sending obnoxious (imvho) html emails to our clients with huge signatures, images, and extra fluff. I prefer simple Plain Text email with a basic signature.<BR><BR>I have found that ...