Re: text/html an abomination

> I also have friends with webmail accounts, and some of those webmailers
> default to text/html, WITHOUT the multipart/alternative of text/plain. Gagh.
that wouldn't bother me a bit if such messages didn't have so much gratuitous 
markup.  in the vast majority of html messages I see, the html contains no more
information than could have been conveyed in plain text, but has so much
cruft in it that it essentially cannot be read as text.