[CaptSpify]

yeah, it does. There are tricks to make it try to look like rendered html, but they all fall flat IME, and it ends up coming across as text. If you get rid of that expectation, it works fine. I get plenty of html emails every day, but all I see is text.

[taeric]

I think we were just talking past each other. I took your statement to mean convincing others to stop sending HTML emails. You meant it more to just focus on the text. (If I am reading correctly.)

In that, yes, I agree. Bonus points for being able to inline respond to messages again. (I hate Outlook's forcing top posting.)

[CaptSpify]

Ah yes. I was confused by your response. That makes more sense. No, I generally don't ask push others to use text-based email, but when asked, I explain the difference with a definite preference for text.

One thing that seems to have helped me (but is very much YMMV), is when I reply, it keeps the html code all messed up. Then when the person I'm discussing with sees that, they'll occasionally ask me why their email is messed up. That gives me an opportunity to explain html vs text, and they usually would rather their email "work everywhere".