Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:32:52 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: recommended mail clients |
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Hi!
> > I would NAK such a patch. > > > > Andrew Morton described a way to do it, some method using x cut buffers, > > IIRC. > > > > The best thing to do is use a custom script, though. Other mailers can > > be annoying as well, with regards to the References header, for example. > > And pine is awful, encoding plain text as base64. > > For a maintainer who patch bombs LKML constantly a custom script is best > but for the casual contributor their mailer should just work. > > The default Gnome and KDE mail clients work OK so why don't we just try > to get Thunderbird fixed or at least warn about it? Casual contributors > are very likely to read SubmittingPatches. > > I'm not trying to find the one true solution I'd just like to end the > constant low grade noise (and higher bug fix latency!) of "Please > resend, your patch is linewrapped" every few days.
Well, l-k has some rather extensive spam traps, right? What about adding "if it contains patch, it should be well-formed patch" into the list?
That way user would get bounce from the mailinglist, telling him how not to damage the patches...
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