Thanks to everyone who took the time to call me out on my email formatting. I was being lazy about configuring my new email client.No it was not Thunderbird's default. The default is to send both text and html. I just was sloppy.
I now have a profile just for debian.org and I will not post any more html. for future users in my position: http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/bottom-posting.html http://mailformat.dan.info/config/