On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:58:33PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@airs.com> wrote: > > Diego Novillo <dnovi...@google.com> writes: > > > >> Sure. First I wanted to find out whether this requirement is just a > >> technical limitation with our mailing list software. > > > > It is not a technical limitation. We explicitly reject HTML e-mail. We > > could accept it. > > > > As Jonathan pointed out, accepting HTML e-mail and then displaying it in > > the web archives will make us even more of a spam target than we already > > are, and will mean that we will need some mechanisms for identifying and > > removing spam and virus links in the web pages. > > I'd love to see data on this.
Go generate it with you own mailing list and let us know. > As others have pointed out, almost > every other open source project accepts html email. Wrong And it is silly to burden everyone else with the bulk and storage of that nonsense, let alone the multiple fonts and standards and CSS style sheets and missappropriate images and links. Its time for users to get with it and not use every stupid thing shoved down their through. And PLEASE tell me you write you C programming in adroind using your thumb prints. Ruben -- http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Interesting Stuff http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://fairuse.nylxs.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME" "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own society." "> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damned.< You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have been attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt. I guess you missed that one." © Copyright for the Digital Millennium
