>I'm not sure the option of turning it off actually addresses the
>difficulty very effectively: my subscribers and my students,
>generally, don't know what it is, much less that it's on by default,
>and have a hard time figuring out how to turn it off when informed
>that they should.

It is the list owner's decision to use the configuration parameter LANGUAGE=
NOHTML to protect their lists.  No action is required by the individual list
subscribers.  LSoft has gone more than half of the way to fixing the
problem.  They just need to take one more step.

- Linda Shives