Randall R Schulz
This bias against styled text in email is absurd.
How much use are facial expressions or hand gestures when talking on the phone?
It should be possible to exercise typographic control when communicating in written form.
Well, we could debate this, but most of the time text and html part will be identical and so you only double the volume of the mail without any added information.
Preferred by a dictatorial "some," I'd say.
Make that "most" and you'll be on the right track.
There is no objective reason to prohibit or even discourage mark-up in email and on Usenet.
The extra mark-up doesn't add *anything* substantial to the mail and you will always have to add a text part as otherwise some people (like me) can't read the mail. So will nearly double the transferred volume without adding anything substantial. Philipp