Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 May 2005 14:23:36 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] update SubmittingPatches to clarify attachment policy |
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On Wed, 4 May 2005, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-04 13:10:35 -0400, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 5/4/05, Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> wrote: >>> >>> I think the general opinion of posting patches as attachments >>> has changed over the last few years. Mailers have been getting >>> a lot better at handling them, even quoting non-message-body >>> plain/text attachments in replies. >> >> There is also the problem of things like gmail/yahoo where you can't >> control the word wrapping. The only way to submit patches from those >> services is as an plain text attachment. If you try to submit then >> in-line and they wrap wrong you will collect a lot of hate mail from >> Andrew. > > Well, why should someone use a broken mail service at all? > > MfG, JBG
Because the net Nazis make often make it the only way to send/receive mail in a domain. There is nothing coming or going here that doesn't go through a M$ mail-killer that even saves every thread of evidence.
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