Subject: No Mail Via HTTP Web Pages, Mail Rejected.
From: HTTPS_sender@
Sender: HTTPS_sender@

I append http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/std/no_https_mail.txt

Resend by Email, Not Web please, else you will not be read !
If you sent eg:
	"To read this message securely, please click this link: https://...."

No, I do Not read email by HTTPS (or HTTP) !  Resend as proper email !
(PGP/GPG suffices for encryption.)
HTTPS mail is Not Necessary, Sensible, or Acceptable:

  Recipients need a constant live internet connection to read HTTPS
  mail.  No problem for recipients in large buildings with many
  employees & constantly manned/ maintained gateway + firewall, But...
  
  Recipients in small offices, home offices, small professional groups eg
  lawyers & architects offices etc, will have to connect to the net each
  time they are burdened by HTTPS encumbered mail from you.

  Recipients may not want to waste their time on modem dial delay for you.
  
  Recipients may not want extra expense of phone or Wavelan + cell/mobile
  phone dial charges.
  
  Recipients in small eg flat rate DSL connected offices may not
  want to risk more constant exposure to the Internet just to read
  HTTPS mail.  They may well appreciate not having to trust their
  small economy budgeted non optimally configured gateway/ firewall
  to withstand higher net exposure time.
  
  Recipients may not have instant net access if travelling, &
  catching up on incoming mail backlog on a laptop/PDA in a taxi,
  table in a park/ restaurant, or non public net equipped airport
  lounge, train, or hotel lobby.  Laptop may fail to negotiate
  connection configuration.  Recipient may prefer his/her laptop/PDA
  fetches mail when connectivity is available, for him/ her to read
  later when time & privacy (but perhaps no longer connectivity)
  is available.

  Transatlantic liners (ships) have frequent web connectivity failure
  (as tested by jes@ in 2004). Easier to read mail off line there too,
  than on line.
  
  HTTPS mail is Less deliverable than real email, as it requires
  complete end to end connection, with no (transient or longer term)
  failing links, whereas real email's store & forward nature,
  (assisted by MX records, &/or multiple recipient mbox hosts)
  allows for relay nodes &/or recipients to be intermittently
  unavailable, & yet for mail to still arrive.
  
  HTTPS Is more sensitive to instantaneous Internet traffic (as
  well as server load) at the moment recipient wants to read mail,
  so HTTPS offer slower screen access to mail (particularly large
  email & enclosures), whereas proper email can get sent at lower
  priority, not competing for bandwidth with live traffic, (eg web
  & remote logins etc), & still arrive Sooner on recipient hard
  disc, & ready to read faster off disc than off some loaded
  communications link.
  
  Recipient needs a `fat' web browser to support https access, which
  consumes ram, disc & processor power, perhaps no great problem
  on a desk's tower chassis, (merely a waste), but a problem on a
  small light weak processor ( low current ) device (laptop/PDA/phone)
  powered by battery.
  
HTTPS based mail indicates corporate failure to think.

Companies that appear less than competent on the Internet probably
attract more internet attacks, intrusion probes, etc, as the company
gives an impression of likely vulnerability.   Companies often don't
even realise they advertise incompetence, until warned by an outside
observer. Advertising incompetence is an invitation to be attacked
or probed or used by the opposition, the media, or share holder
groups, to exhibit the current employees & managers combined self
advertised corporate incompetence.

Often the HTTPS sender is not even in the IT department, so not
responsible, but they should at least pass on this free warning to
those responsible for fixing things.

Other indicators of corporate failure can include eg:
  A company that sends https mail, yet also thin film metal screens
  its windows to block mobile phones.  Which disrupts visitor's
  capability to access similar HTTPS based mail a visitor's employing
  company may have equally sent the visitor for collection via cell/
  mobile/ handy + WaveLAN + HTTPS.

  Mail headers showing forwarding hosts not just with wrong time zones,
  & hours, but also drifting clocks with the minutes way off too,
  (when they could be freely auto synchronised), making bounce debugging
  harder, when there is a mail problem in the sender's network.

If your company might prefer to improve its Internet & Intranet
technologies, please tell your manager &/or IT department, we offer
professional computer consultancy   http://www.berklix.com

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