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by chrismorgan 1166 days ago
Markdown is an authoring format. It’s OK as that. But it’s completely unsuitable as a publishing format, because there’s way too much variation of interpretation. Remember also that Markdown is built on top of HTML, more or less—you’d have to either ban all HTML tags (… which rather makes it not Markdown), or have just the same problems as before, but now worse.

People have suggested Markdown for email quite a few times. It’s a total non-starter, absolutely no chance of anyone doing it in the next few years at least (and I strongly doubt Markdown in any form will ever make it in like that).