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Assuming you're asking about bulk unsolicited e-mail and not the Hormel pork product, here is the answer from Ken Hollis and the alt.spam FAQ: "The history of calling inappropriate postings in great numbers 'Spam' is from a Monty Python skit (yes, it is very silly... see http://www.ironworks.com/comedy/python/spam.htm ) where a couple go into a restaurant, and the wife tries to get something other than Spam. In the background are a bunch of Vikings that sing the praises of Spam. Pretty soon the only thing you can hear in the skit is the word 'Spam'. That same idea would happen to the Internet if large scale inappropriate postings were allowed. You couldn't pick the real postings out from the Spam."
Email sent in HTML format is likely to get flagged as spam!
And one of the quickest ways to get your email flagged as spam is to make it look like spam by filling it up with graphics and large fonts! But plain text emails, especially when they don’t contain spam-like words and phrases, tend to sail through filters far more easily.
Plain text email is easy to compose, easy to send, easy to receive. So you don't have to waste your time trying to format an email for a zillion different incompatible email readers. So your recipients can read your email even on their cell phone or PDA.
Plain text emails have never ever contained a virus, nor tracked if or when an email message was opened, nor caused any security problems. So your email recipients can trust you.
Plain text emails are much more likely to get through all the spam filters on the Internet than HTML email, and therefore be read by your recipients.What’s the point of having a great looking HTML email message if half your recipients never see it? Stick to plain text email and your results will likely improve.