Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932569AbXIKTzn (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:55:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933981AbXIKTz3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:55:29 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:44390 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933964AbXIKTz1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:55:27 -0400 Message-ID: <46E6F2A8.2020104@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:55:20 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Friesen CC: Randy Dunlap , lkml , akpm Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches References: <20070911101644.cd3f641f.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <46E6EE96.9060309@nortel.com> In-Reply-To: <46E6EE96.9060309@nortel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 777 Lines: 24 Chris Friesen wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> +Thunderbird (GUI) >> + >> +By default, thunderbird likes to mangle text, but there are ways to >> +coerce it into being nice. > > Can someone describe the problems with just attaching the patch in > Thunderbird? It's what Martin says he does on the linked document... Email clients don't like to quote attachments, even text/plain ones, which then makes attached patches much more difficult to review and comment on (i.e. you greatly reduce the number of reviewers). Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/