Comment by mwfj
10 years ago
No offense (I have no idea who you are and how much you know), but...
Do you feel you are you competent enough (in e.g. SMTP and MIME) to distinguish between MIME-encoded base64 inline images (super rare) and references to images on external web sites (a lot more common)? Which in the case of old web sites are quite likely to stop working if you revisit old mails.
Did you make the effort to verify that it was the first type when you witnessed this?
You really could have just worded that as, 'are you sure those images weren't linked to external websites' without resorting to questioning his competence and trying to cover it with a 'no offense' (laff).
That's a good point - that would have been less loaded. (The question remains the same though, doesn't it?)
Also - your suggestion would have been a lot less douchey without that "laff".
Actually, yes. However, to be fair, it didn't extend farther than noticing that I couldn't rescue it by copying over the data, because when viewing the "original" the base64 text simply stopped. Wether the data was lost on the server, or simply never transmitted for other reasons (size limit in the UI?) I don't know.
It was inline do by means of a data-url in an img-tag in case you want the details ;)
And no offense taken. It's a fair question.