> The fact that we haven't adopted something much simpler just to be able to express italics or whatever, like markdown, is just bonkers to me. Sounds like you

> The fact that we haven't adopted something much simpler just to be able to express italics or whatever, like markdown, is just bonkers to me. Sounds like you want text/enriched [1], which was published in (checks notes) 1996 and has read support in likely every email client ever. [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1896.txt https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1896.txt