From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
To: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Subject: Re: Mozilla Thunderbird posting instructions wanted
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 21:34:46 +0000
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Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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On Monday 20 February 2006 21:12, Sam Vilain wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > This  POS is pretty popular among kernel janitors, so, can someone who
> > is successfully using it, please, post crystally clear step-by-step
> > instructions on how to send a foo.patch:
> > 	inline
> > 	with tabs preserved
> > 	with long lines preserved
> >
> > Sending plain text attachments is OK with me, but, heh, people do post
> > patches inline and screw themselves.
> >
> > I'll put instructions somewhere on -kj website and point every
> > unsuspecting new guy to them.
>
> Evolution has an option for setting the Content-Disposition: inline
> header on individual attachments; I haven't seen the same option in
> thunderbird.

Many clients have this feature, although it does not end up being presented by 
the client as quotable text. Read: any form of attachment is suboptimal.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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