> Email messages with HTML (if designed correctly) are the same > like webpages but have about 80% less graphics and resources

email html (no matter the design) forces the user to deal with ..js naughtiness, tag attribute exploits, web bugs, at least 13 acitvex exploits, many file type association exploits, cookie intrusions, and other potentially destructive problems

email html doubles (at a minimum) the byte size of an email even if only "plain text" (i.e., no images, other mime types).

email html often promotes style over substance which, to many, is equivalent to a bad noise/signal ratio.

If you have solved all these problems, I'm listening,

Pan