On Thu, Aug 22, 2013, at 9:45, Ned Batchelder wrote: > So that I understand what's going on, what's the bad thing that happens > with a multi-part message? I would have thought that mail readers would > choose the preferred part, or is it something to do with the message > quoting?
The bad thing that happens is baby Jesus cries. In other words, some people just don't like it, for no better reason than personal ideology (and/or they have a non-mime email client and don't like seeing the extra encoded stuff, and/or they have a fully HTML capable email client, don't like it, and can't be bothered learning how to turn off HTML viewing). There's really no way to have a productive discussion about it (though it might be worthwhile to ask whoever is in charge of the list to make it automatically strip html from messages, if enough people have a strong preference) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list