"Why all the bad vibes ? As the saying goes, “be strict in what you send and tolerant in what you receive”. I suffer daily people with 30 lines signatures who ignore quoting and use the most horrible Outlook stationery, but I don’t complain and keep sending properly quoted messages in a sober attire. I enjoy plain text because it is the lowest common denominator that works even on the least functional display across the slowest and lossiest link. And plain text makes proper quoting more coherent across multiple users in a thread. But I silently deal with HTML too – most of the time I’m all tooled up to render it painlessly, even in Mutt. Sometimes HTML is painful (horribly slow link or horribly limited display) but such bad conditions are a marginal use-case nowadays. I even admit sending HTML mail occasionally – tables are so much easier in HTML than in ASCII artful ways…" - Jean-Marc Liotier