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There was one, in the IETF. It went like this: "We should have a HTML profile, somewhat restricted, so that the people who want to send bold and italic and a little more can do that, and composers can know what's okay, and javascript isn't" and a little discussion, and then came people shouting "EVERYTHING EXCEPT TEXT/PLAIN IS THE DEVIL'S WORK!" and the whole thing dissolved due to the noise.

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MUAs do render italics/bold, headlines, citations, etc. , so for just bold and italic HTML isn't required.

Not sure what you're saying — do you have an actual production MUA with text/enriched support, or is it something else? Send me an example of whatever it is, please. Something with boldface but without HTML.

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Just regular Thunderbird rendering some common elements in plaintext mails. Just like e.g. Markdown is rendered on Github. This is what Markdown comes from after all.

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