It's a little late for that no? HTML is already supported on almost every email client. And while I'm annoyed at every one liner email that's using html for tex

It's a little late for that no? HTML is already supported on almost every email client. And while I'm annoyed at every one liner email that's using html for text colors and backgrounds, there are very nice looking things you can do with html (duh) and I'm all for not limiting email communication to be plain text. Our email system is outdated and kludgey, people try to use it for file transfers, document management, instant messaging, photo sharing, etc. Spam is constantly an annoyance that despite wonderful filtering, probably can't be designed out of smtp. There's no easy way to have verifications of sender identity, or even have control over who's allowed to send mail for your domain. (domain keys, and spf records work, but most mail server will accept your mail anyway - We had a dns/ip change forced upon us and the tech forgot to update our spf records and we didn't notice a problem for a week. Some mail servers just tagged us as "possible" spam. The sad situation seems to be that a lot of spf records are wrong.) What I would really like to see is a way to federate Facebook messaging. I'm picking them for no reason other then a large user base, real names (mostly), built in spam protection and controls, video messaging, the ability to share content and have it highlighted in special ways. (It would then need file transfer support and maybe voice chat.) Oh and it shouldn't be Facebook it should be an open protocol. I guess what I'm describing isn't email, I just want it to replace email. Also ever since I saw the google tech demo, every message lately is looking like a "wave". That kind of rich messaging is what users look for. The reason something hasn't taken over email yet (I'm willing to guess) is that we don't all want one company being in charge of it. Jabber (the core tech behind wave) is free and open source and a known protocol that solves a lot if not all my gripes. And most importantly anyone can run it.