MIME and HTML are definitely useful in many situations, but not public
    mailing lists, in my opinion.

Despite not having mime support, I'll concede that mime has a place for
sending binary files like jpgs or schematics.  But using a non-ascii format
for text that is "almost ascii but assumes that you'll be using a particular
font on your computer so that it'll act like a wintel PC" is just ... evil.

BillW

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