Message-ID: <46E83B16.2070608@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:16:38 -0400
From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat, Inc
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To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
CC: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
       Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
       lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches
References: <20070911101644.cd3f641f.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <46E6EE96.9060309@nortel.com> <46E6F2A8.2020104@pobox.com>
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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).

Interestingly, Thunderbird does this right and simply
adds text/plain attachments to the quoted text.

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