accepting a subset of HTML mail in sourceware lists

[Aldy Hernandez <aldyh at redhat dot com>]

Ok, I know this is anathema, but could a case be made to allow certain
HTML mail to the lists?

The gmail app on phones, at least on Android, cannot turn off HTML
mail, which makes it impossible for good netizens to reply to mail
destined to the GCC lists.  An argument could be made for faster patch
approval if our glorious maintainers could be allowed to review
patches from say, the privacy of their own bathrooms :).

I know there is a long standing tradition of refusing HTML mail, but
can this issue be revisited under certain circumstances?  For
instance, AFAICT, my phone spits out a perfectly legitimate text/plain
part in the HTML message, which I'm pretty sure we could use as is,
and strip the rest of the multipart HTML nonsense.

For instance, a recently refused message from my phone has:

Content-Type: multipart/alternative;  boundary="001a113ce67662c2d70558f97fb8"

--001a113ce67662c2d70558f97fb8
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

<...Lots of simple plain text following...>

Seeing that we're collectively moving to reading/writing mail in
phones and other HTML only devices, is this something that can be
considered, or are things not as simple as removing/refusing the non
text/plain parts of an HTML message?

Thanks.
Aldy