Why this phobia to HTML mail?

[John Thompson]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 16:29:15 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:

>IBM do a plug-in for IE (and NS?) called TechExplorer - it lets your web 
>browser interpret TeX directly, I think all mail clients should implement
>the same "solution" so that we can have all use HTML-ised-TeX-mail(TM). 
>that'll keep the weanies confused for years to come. But shit, Steve, I don't 
>think TeX supports colour or flashing yellow on red... :-(

OK.  So what's the downside of using TeX?


John (john.thompson@attglobal.net)