Why this phobia to HTML mail?

[gomez]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 10:35:38 +0200, xavier caballe wrote:

>I understand that you don't like HTML mail. Ok, just ask for a switch to disable that option... and everybody will be happy. I don't understand the 
>generalized phobia that some people on this list has to this feature: if you don't like, don't use it! That's fine for me. But please let me decide by myself 
>if I want to use it.

if I receive a html mail, when I reply my mex is 
set to html to by default...

I don't like it, I prefer to have a switch to 
turn off html _at_all_ (or to use it...)

Mauro