Stationery

Anyone know if they are going to allow stationery on the new WLM? ever?
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John the West Ham Fan


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My best guess is that Microsoft will not reintroduce a stationery feature for Windows Live Mail.

Gary VanderMolen, Microsoft MVP (Mail)
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"housetrained" wrote in message news:id2kac$dce$...

Anyone know if they are going to allow stationery on the new WLM? ever?
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John the West Ham Fan


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Doubtful...That ship sailed years ago...i.e. it has not been a priority for
quite some time.


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msft mvp mail

"housetrained" wrote in message news:id2kac$dce$...

Anyone know if they are going to allow stationery on the new WLM? ever?
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John the West Ham Fan


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housetrained wrote:

> Anyone know if they are going to allow stationery on the new WLM? ever?

Probably won't reappear and probably for good reason. Those who use
stationery aren't using it in just one e-mail sent to one recipient.
Typically stationery gets used when sending multiple e-mails to multiple
recipients. If the content of the stationery comprises more than the
content of a short e-mail, those multiple e-mails look similar in
content. That will run you afoul of anti-spam filters that look for
multiple e-mails sent to multiple recipients at the same domain (i.e.,
e-mail providers check for floods of e-mails that hit many of their
recipients and which have the same or very similar content). Stationery
requires composing in HTML format which is worthless for any of your
recipients that read their e-mails in plain-text format; that is, your
stationery was a waste of time because the recipients won't see it.
Some users want to get rid of stationery without resorting to reading
HTML e-mails in plain-text format and there are VBA macros for Outlook
to do that. That is, those users strip out the distractive crap and
leave behind just the real content.

Those using stationery are usually sending "marketing" e-mails (which
they try to qualify as business e-mail); that is, they're sending spam
or, at best, e-mails unwanted by the recipients. You don't need
stationery for occasional e-mails sent to your friends or family with
non-spam content. If you are using stationery for e-mails sent to
family and friends, have you actually inquired of them if they want that
superfluous fluff in your HTML-formatted e-mails? Most senders that use
stationery will overuse it so it becomes a nuisance to the recipients.
Stationery usually makes the content harder to read, it's distracting,
and it's obvious in its ploy in trying to bloat the content of an
otherwise weak message. Stationery usually makes an e-mail look
amateurish. Professional e-mails don't use stationery.

If you're trying to make your e-mails look like a web page but because
of reduced HTML support in e-mail clients, disable of scripts, and the
blocking of externally linked content, you should create a web page and
give your recipients a link to it.

"VanguardLH" <> wrote in message
news:id3s79$e76$...
> housetrained wrote:
>
>> Anyone know if they are going to allow stationery on the new WLM? ever?
>
> Probably won't reappear and probably for good reason. Those who use
> stationery aren't using it in just one e-mail sent to one recipient.
> Typically stationery gets used when sending multiple e-mails to multiple
> recipients. If the content of the stationery comprises more than the
> content of a short e-mail, those multiple e-mails look similar in
> content. That will run you afoul of anti-spam filters that look for
> multiple e-mails sent to multiple recipients at the same domain (i.e.,
> e-mail providers check for floods of e-mails that hit many of their
> recipients and which have the same or very similar content). Stationery
> requires composing in HTML format which is worthless for any of your
> recipients that read their e-mails in plain-text format; that is, your
> stationery was a waste of time because the recipients won't see it.
> Some users want to get rid of stationery without resorting to reading
> HTML e-mails in plain-text format and there are VBA macros for Outlook
> to do that. That is, those users strip out the distractive crap and
> leave behind just the real content.
>
> Those using stationery are usually sending "marketing" e-mails (which
> they try to qualify as business e-mail); that is, they're sending spam
> or, at best, e-mails unwanted by the recipients. You don't need
> stationery for occasional e-mails sent to your friends or family with
> non-spam content. If you are using stationery for e-mails sent to
> family and friends, have you actually inquired of them if they want that
> superfluous fluff in your HTML-formatted e-mails? Most senders that use
> stationery will overuse it so it becomes a nuisance to the recipients.
> Stationery usually makes the content harder to read, it's distracting,
> and it's obvious in its ploy in trying to bloat the content of an
> otherwise weak message. Stationery usually makes an e-mail look
> amateurish. Professional e-mails don't use stationery.
>
> If you're trying to make your e-mails look like a web page but because
> of reduced HTML support in e-mail clients, disable of scripts, and the
> blocking of externally linked content, you should create a web page and
> give your recipients a link to it.

Thanks, a brilliant reply - you have almost talked me into scrapping my
stationery.

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John the West Ham Fan


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