Yann Hodique writes:

 > Although the comparison with HTML is probably not that fair,

No, and I would think Drew in particular would avoid comparing a
properly standardized vulgarity to a complete atrocity.  But them's
the breaks.

 > I do agree that it's bad email practice. More importantly, I'm
 > wondering how it would not be better to leverage the existing
 > RFC1341 that any decent mailer should implement.

Good idea, but poor implementation.  IMSEO this:

 >