(Slightly OT) Forwarding email: inline vs as attachment

Nathan England nathan at paysonlinux.org
Thu Jul 13 08:41:14 MST 2006


If it is inappropriate or a warning is needed before the user reads it?

On Thursday 13 July 2006 06:49, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> I seem to remember reading something some time ago that led me to
> believe that forwarding "as attachment" was preferable (somehow better)
> than forwarding "inline". I may be mistaken.
>
> In the Thunderbird tutorial, I see this:
> Unless you have specific reasons not to include an email forward inline,
> you should let emails be forwarded inline, by consideration for the
> recipient: scrolling down is a lot easier than double clicking an email
> attachment.
>
> Can anyone explain why one would want to forward as attachment?
>
> TIA

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