[Coco] OT: Self-modifying email??!!

[Frank Pittel]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 09:25:17AM -0400, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu wrote:
> > Thanks, Aaron.  That certainly seems like the most logical
> > explanation.  I hadn't realized that images displayed in an email
> > message need not reside in the message itself.
> >
> > This gives me an idea for a great email application for those who
> > occasionally experience Sender's Remorse.  Or those with less
> > honorable intentions.
> >
> > The application takes the message you've typed in and turns it into an
> > image.  The email is then sent out as a link to an image in a web
> > location controlled by the sender.  To the recipient, the image
> > appears as ordinary text.
> 
> Except that to many people it won't appear at all.  Wmail is a text
> medium, not HTML.  Not everyone reads email in a browser.

I use Mutt as my MUA and it shows html email as text and I don't even try to read it.
It gets deleted right away!

The Other Frank