On 3 Feb 2002, Vincent Labrecque wrote: >Date: 03 Feb 2002 11:58:45 -0500 >From: Vincent Labrecque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >List-Id: Neomagic driver development and testing. <neomagic.XFree86.Org> >Subject: Re: This list is now open to posting from members only. > >David Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > People should be attaching text files inline in the message, IMO. >> >> Everyone has their own opinion. Don't impose yours on me. > Am I imposing it? I was just making a suggestion. > >> All of these arbitrary restrictions are ridiculous. > > Uh, what restrictions? All mailers can accept inline text, and most of them > can also handle attachments. How is using the more general a restriction? > > I don't really care what the outcome of this is, I'm just curious about what > you were thinking about..
These types of issues have no "correct" answer. Whatever a particular person is using, they will expect to be "correct" regardless of reason based on personal preference. When it comes to patches at least, I expect someone sending me patches to attach them to the message as standard MIME attachments so that any MTA's and MUA's the patch may pass through before it gets to me, do not modify whitespace or otherwise change a patch. PINE in particular, as shipped in source code form from UW, will modify whitespace in messages, which destroy's diff patches. When I receive inline patches, generally I find that they will not apply, and when I ask for a MIME resend, they apply. So there are arguements both for and against using inline for file attachments. In the end, it is up to the sender, and anyone elses wishes can be ignored by that particular sender. I think the current discussion however is sort of humorous. The list maintainers will set up the list how they think is best, and are more likely to ignore people who start flamewars about it, than to give it any thought. It's easy to use procmail to filter and/or munge messages into the preferred way. So what's right or wrong in anyone's eyes, including my own, is more or less irrelevant. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Neomagic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/neomagic
