But it is a problem that must be addressed. It doesn't help to boil the situation into an inaccurate but amusing caricature of the problem. That's how the many bad interfaces get developed.
The problem is solved for my case. I'm not going to be using html mails. But ignoring the problem isn't going to make it disappear for everyone else - there isn't a way for a user to find out they're being ignored. That's all that needs to be said.