Question : why not embed images in email

I have strong reasons (imo) for not doing it, instead, like most people, I use a url to the image hosted on some webserver.

why is this the usual practice??

is the technical aspect of this so abysmal that it just isn't done, or is it something to do with sending the emails (although I could see arguments either way for sending at once, or for letting a webserver serve the images as people view the emails)

thanks for your opinions,

Bob

Answer : why not embed images in email

1) keeping them on the server makes sure the email will be delivered to everyone (some people have limits on how big an email can be, or have limits in their email dir which might be broken because of the size of an image)

2) keeping images on the server can give a count of how many people actually opened the email, this being a benchmark for how well the email went.

3) keeping images on the server will allow downloading the email to go "quicker" because the email can be downloaded as just text and the image is given later if they are still online.

4) keeping images on server avoids extra code to embed them.

overall, its best to ask people what type of email they'd like to receive... and send only text when possible.