"Teacherjh" wrote in message
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I vote plain text.

It is a universal format.

I don't think that's a sound reason. Used in the past it would have stranded
us with the 5-bit teletype code, or the 7-bit ASCII code, or the 7-bit ISO
code, or... Sometimes the new needs to put pressure on the old. The greatest
strength of MIME was its careful attention to backward compatibility with
non-MIME-aware software; this also was a great weakness because it provided
no pressure to upgrade.

HTML puts the onus on the reader to have certain
software, for which they recieve little value in return (most HTML
formatting
is worthless, and much is less than worthless).

Agreed with that last reason.

-- David Brooks