Greg Freemyer
The biggest functional use is tables. If you want a nice looking table, rich text is almost mandatory.
This is a straw man argument. People have been creating plain text tables since the beginning of email. For example: | Header 1 | Header 2 | Header 3 | Header 4 | Header 5 | |----------+----------+----------+----------+----------| | Item 1 | Item 2 | Item 3 | Item 4 | Item 5 | | Item 6 | Item 7 | Item 8 | Item 9 | Item 10 | Some programs even have functions to help you create them. The above simple example was done with the help of org-table-minor-mode: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/org/Built_002din-table-ed... Also good mailers will also understand and display emailer markups such as: *Bold* /Italic/ _Underscore_ and fontifies plain text URLs and made them clickable. Charles -- "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." (Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amterdam Linux Symposium)