I sometimes send tabular data as html email. While I can render it as fixed-width ascii, I wouldn't remove tables just because they can be abused for layout (i

I sometimes send tabular data as html email. While I can render it as fixed-width ascii, I wouldn't remove tables just because they can be abused for layout (if you want to impose visible cell boundaries, fine). I wouldn't have any desire to limit the richness of messages displayable on common readers, if it weren't for unwanted email (quasi-spam from companies I did business with once, to say nothing of random malicious spam, which automatically justifies extreme simplification of accepted mail markup for security's sake). Even when the visually rich email is safe, it makes unwanted email even more annoying for the brief second it flashes on screen before I delete it.