On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:24:20 -0400 Bill Davidsen wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > This seems reasonable, so I tried to use it. Here are the results > > and comments and meta-comments. > > > > > > 1. Please forcibly wrap text lines in mail body at around column 70-72. > > > > 2. Put patches inline in the mail body, not as attachments. > > > I'll offer this suggestion, knowing it may piss you off, given the > difficulty of preserving whitespace on *many* mailers without using > attachments, and given that attachments can be saved easily without > prying them out of the message, why don't you (one person) switch to a > capable mail agent, if only for patches, instead of trying to teach many > people to jump through hoops to avoid whitespace issues?
Is "you" referring to me? You didn't piss me off. I don't even understand what you are talking about. BTW, lots of us have capable mail clients. > Not criticizing, just seems easier for everybody for you to avoid > teaching people things they don't find useful elsewhere, or getting > discouraged and not bothering. (again, if "you" are referring to me:) I generally try to help people. Another option is just to give them no feedback and drop their patches. I think that's not useful or helpful at all. --- ~Randy Phaedrus says that Quality is about caring. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
