Re: Is there a way of doing it?

Bud wrote:

> In OE when I mail my friends and family, I dress it up with
> stationary, various fonts and so on. I also insert a midi file which
> plays when the mail is opened.

Ack!!

>  They all seem to enjoy it.

I seriously doubt it.  I more imagine that they know that you enjoy
putting it together and so they tolerate it for your amusement or
enjoyment.  Or maybe about one 'kinda' likes it and the vast majority
don't want to hurt your feelings by telling you that they have no use
for it.

People are very disinclined to tell someone that something that they put
some effort into personalizing isn't their own cup of tea.  "I know you
made that dress, but it is really ugly and I don't even like that style
or those colors anyway."  Not gonna happen.

They are glad to hear from you and they like what you have to say in the
content, but in my mind and I don't know these people who are your
family and not mine, I would imagine that they would almost all rather
just hear from you.

Why don't you send your next few letters as plaintext, and see how many
request that you go back to doctoring them up.  Receiving that kind of
'stuff' should be an opt-in process, not an opt-out -- because it is a
social issue and no one is going to opt-out.  Instead they are going to
feign that they really like it.

But, that's just my opinion -- I'm very 'opinioned' - as if that were
somehow different from 'opinionated'.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin