Changing the Rant
Jeff is wise to point out that I sound like a whiny girl in my last post. He's not entirely wrong. But after dragging, dropping, renaming by hand, and doing yet more scrolling to identify which message needed an HTML attachment to say "I agree", I was Mostly Insane. It would be really great if we could just keep the inline text of the HTML doc separate and just junk the Attach0.html file, but our server-based email system has such a horrid HTML parser in their client (why they didn't use WebKit in the Mac client, I'll never know!), that really keeping the Attach0.html is necessary. So, I'll switch my rant here, away from the clueless minions who just see a color palette and just have to use it, and to the email systems that decide they think they can parse HTML when really they cannot, thus justifying the creation and archiving of the original HTML attachment.
Ah, Attach0.html, how I hate what you stand for! You stand for bad parsing of simple markup. For the desire to have all your email with pretty lavender backgrounds and magenta text. For the desire for every corporation nigh unto the end of the earth putting their logo in their emails with slick marketing language required to accompany each logo. It's not that I despise such text formatting as italics, or bolds, it's the requirement for every Dick, Jane and Sally to force what they think is a good color scheme upon my eyes each time. I just want the text, and possibly the emphasis marks. Because really, your color scheme means little or nothing to me. And chances are, unless you're immediate family or friends, I don't care enough about your marketing campaign to really read what it is that you're sending in nested tables and embedded CSS.
Email has just become another billboard for people to spray their tacky logo across, and I really hate that.
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