The real problem here isn't text-only email, or even Mozilla being concerned about not being able to track who is opening messages sent to its mailing lists. Th

The real problem here isn't text-only email, or even Mozilla being concerned about not being able to track who is opening messages sent to its mailing lists. The real problem is that certain large webmail providers are making a hostile takeover bid for the fundamental infrastructure that email represents. The likes of Google have decided that their own interpretation of how email should work is more important than things like following standards and delivering properly formatted and correctly sent messages.