Quoting admin@kclinux.net: 
 
> After looking over all 
> of my emails for the past month, close to 75% of all of the emails that I 
> have recieved (especially from corporations like Sprint, Black & Veatch, 
> PDA, Farmers Insurance, Hallmark, and other businesses that almost equaled 
> to 90% and all of which I work with or have contacts with) were all HTML 
> emails.   
 
So, because the illiterati from AOL do it, it's a good idea?  There's an 
undercurrent I sense here as well: you're a Big Time Businessman and can't be 
bothered with old fashioned courtesies. 
 
Most of the IT expertise in these companies was learned in a Microsoft 
Certification Cram Session.  The managers who decide on the standards that 
include HTML mail are far more likely to have backgrounds in sales than any 
experience with IT - in fact, it's likely that their secretary has to show 
them how to sync their Palm Pilot on a regular basis. 
 
Dollar volume doesn't equal expertise, any more than a spiffy font 
communicates for a mailing list. 
 
Allow us to refocus your discussion as well:  No-one here has objected to HTML 
mail between consenting parties.  We've just pointed out that it's rude to 
post it to a technical mailing list.  You're welcome to spam your Very 
Important "Clients" with it. 

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