I'm for HTML in e-mails, because:

• When you have a beautiful template, with CSS stylesheets, well, it's beautiful (it's like buying beautiful paper for your snail mail).
• I can't think of any security issue, since I'm using a mailer that allows to disable script executions in mails.
• OK, HTML is heavier, but hey, what's a few more K's ? Not much, even if you have a 56k modem.
• You can add much more interactivity within your mails.

I hate HTML in mails, because :

• People usually don't use special templates, they just write black text on white background.
• I'm using M$ Outlook Express and I'm concerned about security issues and evil pop-ups.
• I've a 28.8k modem and HTML mail just take half an hour to load.
• What useful interactivity do people really add to their mails ? none.

a comment about HTML Email

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