Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 19:54:22 +0200
From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] update SubmittingPatches to clarify attachment policy
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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

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