Re: FLASH: Emailing Flash content

[Gregg Caines]

Of course I think you're totally correct that mass direct email to a bunch

of email addresses would definitely make the EXE a stupid choice, but

I think it's probably not a good idea to spam (with attachments no less)

anyway.


I'm not so sure the EXE is a bad idea... assuming you're passing it along

virally (meaning each recipient passes it along to friends, etc), then the

person who would get the blame for passing it to a mac user, would

probably be the friend who sent it.


You could also include a URL with the email containing the EXE.  It's just

my experience that URLs alone don't seem to get people's attention like a

300K email from a friend.  People seem to be more willing to try out a

300K presentation that they've already downloaded than check out a simple

URL, and if they don't check it out, they certainly won't forward it to

their

friends.  Just my two cents anyway... I'm certainly not saying it's a good

idea to exclude Mac users... I just don't see a more efficient way to get

the

presentation out to the greatest number of people.


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Gregg Caines

n e o m e t r i x  systems inc.

http://www.neometrixsystems.com

gcainesneometrixsystems [dot] com

> I'm a mac user and if I got an .exe in my e-mail (anyone check out the new

Wired

> Style guide?) I'd be plenty annoyed. I'm not too rabid about the mac/pc

thing.

> I'd just think you were a dolt and that your firm didn't get it.

>

> g

>

> Gahlord Dewald

> Weeds Media Consortium

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> Interactive Designers.

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> f: 800.863.9606

>

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>

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