On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Random832
There's no singular 800lb gorilla pushing the trend towards HTML mail. There's the fact that real users want to be able to use font styles, inline images, and tables, and anyone who wanted that to be handled via something other than HTML (text/enriched or whatever) has completely dropped the ball.
Sure, nobody's pushing for PDF Emails or anything like that. But it's not that hard to use a bit of casual text markup instead of actual font styles; and honestly, the number of times tables/images/etc are used well is utterly dwarfed by the number of times they're used uselessly. Epitomizing the inanity of a lot of people's email usage is one person I know who will reply-all to a long post, quoting the whole thing, and top-posting a "Thanks!" with a signature attached. That's the entire content of the post, but it has a whole lot of color and formatting and stuff. If text-only emails lose us that kind of thing at the cost of also losing us the occasional inline image, I'm okay with that price. ChrisA