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Comment by pyalot2

Right-click -> Save Image as -> forward to anybody you want

Most email readers block images by default

Disabled persons who rely on screen readers and other assistance technologies just got screwed, thanks.

Answering by quoting your email just got really hard.

Some email services download images for you and don't link to your server.

I've read your email at the office, now I can't read it at home, or on my iPhone, or vice versa.

Your email picture service is down or has server trouble, no recipient can read such mails anymore.

Cryptographic email signing becomes meaningless as the recipient can't parse the signature and message body to verify the hash.

A lot of spam filters might screen out emails that are nothing but an image.

Searching trough email by text will never find those emails because they contain no text.

Devices with small screen sizes (iPhone and the like) can't re-layout the text (as in word wrap), making such image emails really painful to read.

parent pyalot2 14 years ago

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