I came here expecting this comment and I'm bored and disappointed to find placed so highly.

I send html emails. Not always but quite often I'm emailing people where this won't communicate the same making the text italic or bold.

Or I'm sending a code fragment and I want it indented and renderedin a monospace font.

Or I want to embed an image, or I want to linkify some text.

Can we stop having this debate? It's a was a battle lost a long time ago and the cost has been largely worth the benefits.