You can get the mailers to use non-HMTL. I subscribe to a number of mailing lists in digest form. Two I can think of that are best for me because of the volume are: beowulf and lustre . Both at 7-bit ASCII, nothing fancy. I read them both with traditional tools as well as browser based tools -> my choice. And I very much prefer digests - for the reasons Bob mentioned - it's just easier to manage, particularly for high volume like this one. Clem Cole On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote: On 2012-12-17 20:51, Bob Armstrong wrote: That capability is not something I've ever seen in the digests I've tested on various sites. It sends the digest in html with the messages sorted by subject and a table of contents at the top. Just scan the list of topics and click on any that you're interested in (conversely, don't click on any that you aren't!). Likewise, the web archive displays a tree view of messages by thread. Well, that fails it for me then. I hate html formatted mail even more... Johnny