Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Whining about MIME formatted email | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 12 Sep 2000 11:41:57 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Kurt" == Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> writes:
Kurt> On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 06:33:34PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote: >> Exmh handles MIME just fine and MIME is useful for some things. >> Other people (including Linus) have made it clear that MIME is not >> welcome on linux-kernel, plain text format is always better when >> you are sending plain text. What next, rich text format and HTML >> with multiple copies of the text, MSWord format?
Kurt> Stop making stupid statements like this, please, and comparing Kurt> well-defined RFC standards with proprietary formats. MIME is a Kurt> way for people that happen to use non 7bit characters to be able Kurt> to print their name correctly, even in presence of MTAs Kurt> somewhere in between that don't handle 8bit. Or with PGP, which Kurt> also prefers 7bit ... You'll probably complain about me using a Kurt> GnuPG signature as well.
You do not need 8 bit characters in kernel code it's as simple as that. If you really insist, then post the patch in pure 8 bit, quoted-unreadable is brain damage and deserves to die the sooner the better. If there is a broken mail server somewhere in the way (which is really really rare these days) let the people who are behind that server suffer and not everybody else.
Besides, quoted-unreadable makes it hard to just do
patch < $MAILDIR/linux-kernel/<mail-number>
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