Use plaintext email
My god, this is never going to die, is it?<p>I mean, I get it. There are some things about plaintext that are nice, or that really appeal to the kind of people who read HN. I used to have arguments about this, too -- but it was 20 years ago. Today, the ship has fucking SAILED.<p>And you know what? It's GREAT. I send formatted email constantly -- and they're better for it. Being able to embed screenshots is awesome. Being able to use color, or bold, or italics, makes a difference in communication.<p>It's done. I'm not going back to plaintext, and I can't imagine most people will, either. There's no good reason to (in particular, the downfalls of HTML the author lists are all either easily solved or are issues orthogonal to the format of the email.)