The users want html formatted mail.
Most of them have no idea what that means.
The main reason so many users end up sending HTML-burdened E-mail is because
they don't know any better, and because it is the default.
Most HTML-burdened E-mail generated by the VAST majority of users never use any
of the formatting (or other such) features at all. For all of those messages,
the HTML-burdening only just makes the messages bigger without conveoying ANY
more information.
They do not want rfc plaintext.
The GREAT majority of them (probably 95%) couldn't care less.
For the rest, if their recipient agrees to accept the bulkier HTML-burdened
stuff, they can continue to use it without the slightest difficulty.
I believe that, given the choice, the overwhelming annoyance of spam, viruses,
and worms is a FAR greater issue to virtually all legitimate users than HTML
'benefits' are. If more users realized how crucial HTML-burdened messages are
to spammers, the users would gladly give up HTML.
This problem cannot be solved by solutions that only work for geeks.
Sorry, but to suggest that plain ASCII text E-mail "doesn't work" for other
than
geeks is one of the more ludicrous arguments I've see in this thread so far...
:-)
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