And amen to this:

> Well, I will add one vote to the plain text side.  I use a
> dinosaur of a system and a mail reader (mush on a unix shell) and I
> like them. Its FAST, I use the keyboard and don't have to chase
> rodents across the screen,  and it does what I tell it to do, not
> what some GUI programmer decided was the  way they thought it
> should work. It wraps lines where I want to, not where the GUI
> wants to.

The possibility of making your letters big and pink doesn't strike me
as a reasonable tradeoff for making your message virtually unreadable
for people working with, um, real editors.

                                        -- Russ
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