ItsTrueYouKnow

> It would be akin to the government can forcing you to pay for them to prosecute you.

Taxes?

Because anonymous, rapid, long distance communication is obviously easy to do person to person.

I believe that blake8086 was referring to the content of the hidden message when he said plain text. He is asserting that if you hide 'hidden message here' in something, you are using security by obscurity, but if you try to hide ENC('hidden message here', 'secret key goes here') you are going to make the detection of the presence of your secret message easier.

Your newspaper is dying because it can't connect to its database?

If communication that you actually wanted to receive was sent in plain text then you could easily filter HTML email and be rid of it. Spammers aren't going to stop sending HTML mail because it is so useful for what they do, but no one else needs it.

If you care more about how the email looks than the content, then odds are that the people who you are sending the email to do not want to receive it.

It's only when I don't know you and you're trying to sell me something that you need to make the email visually appealing.

No. It's called spam and there is a special circle of hell reserved for people who send it. Keep that shit out of my inbox.

Please don't send HTML email, there is almost never a scenario when it is necessary. All it does is create larger emails, have redundant information (most HTML emails also send a plain text counterpart), make reading email more difficult (especially if you are using a terminal mail client or are visually impaired), and allow for obnoxious email styling.

HTML Email, just say NO.

Yeah, but when was the last time any country cared what the UN considered a breach of human rights?