A secretary at work wants to send an email with a clipart that has sound with it but when she creates the email, the sound creates a separate icon on the page that has to be clicked to play. How can she make it where when someone opens the email, the sound is automatically playing?

4/26/2007 11:10:27 AM

if it would automatically play then it would be exploited in some way - thus this isn't usually an option

4/26/2007 11:12:28 AM

Wanting to put clipart and sound in a work e-mail should be grounds for dismissal. Tell her to be tacky on her own time.

4/26/2007 11:27:35 AM

^

emails are meant to be plaintext

4/26/2007 12:11:51 PM

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"Wanting to put clipart and sound in a work e-mail should be grounds for dismissal. Tell her to be tacky on her own time."

+1

4/26/2007 12:13:02 PM

If anyone ever sent me an email that played a noise when I opened it, I would promptly add that person to my kill filter.

4/26/2007 12:23:37 PM

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"emails email users are meant to be plaintext competent"

that's stupid. we don't do word processing in plain text anymore, there's no reason why emails can't be high-fidelity documents as well, when required. there's etiquette for everything else in life, people should be expected to learn it for email too, rather than just throw away advanced features for everybody just cus a few secretaries don't get it

4/26/2007 12:39:04 PM

the leet linux users want everything to be plaintext so they can view it on their OS

haha cheap shot, i know.

but for real, email doesn't have to be plaintext. i don't know why you people think it's so cool to send emails in plaintext.

1) people don't open attachments nearly often enough to send everything that requires formatting as an attachment
2) people don't click links in an email that says CLICK HERE TO SEE MY MESSAGE WITH NICE FORMATTING
3) that forces you to write longer emails in the body itself and people don't read long things, so that forces you to use paragraphs and short sentences and bulleted lists and bold formatting to keep their attention in places where it's needed and not in the rest so they can skim the rest of the text

that's sort of off-topic. i agree here though, clipart + sound = a nice rude email reply + a spam rule for that person

[Edited on April 26, 2007 at 3:34 PM. Reason : .]

4/26/2007 3:32:49 PM

if something needs to have richtext formatting or images, I attach a pdf. I like to be able to read emails from a console, phone, etc.

4/26/2007 3:41:38 PM

people don't open attachments - i wish there was a study or something i could quote but it's just the truth. people are lazy by nature

4/26/2007 3:53:12 PM

My roommate my freshman year had an email noise that played whenever he received a new one...funny at first but obnoxious after awhile.
*beep beep* "MAIL MOTHAFUCKER!!"

4/26/2007 6:00:50 PM

^ yeah that was funny for about a day after i saw eurotrip

4/26/2007 6:20:11 PM

^roommate did it for AIM for an entire semester drove me insane

4/26/2007 10:48:48 PM

i also think AIM sounds should be off by default

[Edited on April 26, 2007 at 10:54 PM. Reason : actually, all instant message program sounds Ø]

4/26/2007 10:53:42 PM

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"i also think AIM sounds should be off by default"

agreed, the first thing i do is turn them off

4/26/2007 11:03:24 PM

could you send an html email with the clipart embedded with the embed source= tag with the autoplay=true modifier?

4/27/2007 12:11:52 AM

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"people don't open attachments - i wish there was a study or something i could quote but it's just the truth. people are lazy by nature"

Not opening attachments sounds like sensible caution for the most part. At least when it's something like "Oh haha, funy sound clip! LOL!" Sounds like half the viruses I've ever been sent.

4/27/2007 12:21:24 AM

^ i don't send that stupid shit and from my experience, they don't open serious attachments like docs and stuff they need to read. they're more likely to open the haha funny click here to listen shit

[Edited on April 27, 2007 at 3:27 AM. Reason : .]

4/27/2007 3:27:03 AM

Sounds like you had some slacker group members.

4/27/2007 8:42:55 AM

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"if something needs to have richtext formatting or images, I attach a pdf. I like to be able to read emails from a console, phone, etc."

zactly

4/27/2007 10:01:26 AM

As to instant messaging sounds, not only do I have them turned off but I have those awful font selections are whacky colors filtered out too.
If anyone IMs me it shows up as grey Helvetica size 12.

Thanks Adium.

4/27/2007 10:19:10 PM