What, so that the client has literally no choice of not showing the images, even you just want to view the text version? Good email clients already provide a v

What, so that the client has literally no choice of not showing the images, even you just want to view the text version? Good email clients already provide a very simple solution: a user option to disable loading remote content, with a per-message option to load it. Your suggestion would mean that my mail client has to download a ridiculously larger volume of data than it does now.