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Some senders may excessively rely upon large, colorful, or distracting fonts making all but the shortest messages more difficult to read.
Many HTML-based GUI [[email client]]s automatically convert common plain text characters, like '''-''' and '''"''', into their proper typographic equivalents, like '''—''' and '''“''', which are not part of 7-bit [[ASCII]]. This can cause translation problems in other users' clients.{{citation needed}}
For these reasons many [[Electronic mailing list|mailing list]]s deliberately block HTML e-mail, either stripping out the HTML part to just leave the plain text part or rejecting the entire message.
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