On 28-Jan-2010, at 18:24, John C. Welch wrote:
> 
> Indeed. So rather than trying to make it hard to get to, instead, meet the
> challenge head on, and give people a solid *subset* of HTML so they can have
> better formatting and control. If you give them 90% of what they will use
> right there, no arguing, the other 10% they don't have is forgivable.

This is one of the reasons I like the idea of having an option for markdown to 
be translated to html. The fact is that HTML messages can be quite useful. Adam 
Engst @ TidBITS does html messages right, though it took me a couple of years 
to get over my antipathy for HTML emails and learn this.

We'll still have some Letters user sending out pink text on a sky-blue 
background with a .tiff signature graphic<1>, but there's only so much stupid 
you can plan for.

<1> not making this up

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