Dear coreboot folks,
lately even long time contributors started to send messages to the list, which were not just plain text but included an HTML formatted part too.
Besides that HTML formatting for text only adds advantage in rare cases, it also increases message size, which is bad in my case, as I only have a 30 MB flat rate on my mobile plan for example.
So could you please recheck your email client setting and just send plain text from now on? That would be great.
By the way, the Linux kernel mailing list (LKML) scrubs HTML parts by default and even blocks HTML message with no plain text to my knowledge. So it is no unusual policy.
Thanks,
Paul
Paul,
Can you please point me to when this became policy on the coreboot mailing list? I searched, but all I could find was you (and only you) trying to enforce this netiquette policy, nowhere that it was actually discussed or adopted.
Also, if you get bored, take the email messages from the last month, and scrub the HTML from them. You will find the saved bandwidth is an extremely small part of your 30MB limit, a few KB at the most, but probably less then the ~2KB of an average text email, including headers. Then add up the all the signatures, and compare the two figures.
-Corey
On Mar 7, 2014, at 1:42 AM, Paul Menzel paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Besides that HTML formatting for text only adds advantage in rare cases, it also increases message size, which is bad in my case, as I only have a 30 MB flat rate on my mobile plan for example.
So could you please recheck your email client setting and just send plain text from now on? That would be great.
Getting back to the original point of this thread, I don’t like HTML for a code-discussion mailing list because it often mangles the formatting of patches, code snippets, etc.
There’s nothing in C that can’t be represented in a text/plain; flowed=off message.
-Philip
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