This isn't exactly new, in terms of Microsoft email tools being a pain to use for submitting patches without HTML munging. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's been a

This isn't exactly new, in terms of Microsoft email tools being a pain to use for submitting patches without HTML munging. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's been a problem for over a decade. The only new part here is them making suggestions. That said, from my experiences hosting email lists, that might indirectly be the higher bar to entry. So many providers' anti-spam policies basically treat discussion lists as spam, especially if you are so bold as to have multiple subscribers who use that one list. Gods forbid one of the users manages to delete their address or let it go stale without unsubscribing first and the list software lets a single email get bounced.