Standards for email markup would be really nice for starters. I think it would be great if email had a sort of simple XML data structure, it would be a lot eas

Standards for email markup would be really nice for starters. I think it would be great if email had a sort of simple XML data structure, it would be a lot easier to tie it in with modern day document formats. I highly doubt both of these will happen in the foreseeable future, The standards for html email alone are still terrible