On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 12:28:00PM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: > Text-only was great in 1985. > >
And it's still pretty badass in 2020. I really love the way company networks are brought down by a little helpful Javascript in an HTML email. Can't get your email to go plain text, attachments work. If they don't, why not change providers? It's a bit of work, but almost anyone can setup their own email server for next to nearly free. Chris Bennett > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions > > Midwest Internet Exchange > > The Brothers WISP > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Frank Beuth" <secli...@boxdan.com> > To: misc@openbsd.org > Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 3:28:50 AM > Subject: Microsoft's war on plain text email in open source > > "Linux kernel development which is driven by plain-text email > discussion needs better or alternative collaborative tooling "to bring > in new contributors and maintain and sustain Linux in the future," says > Sarah Novotny, Microsoft's representative on the Linux Foundation board. > > Said tooling could be "a text-based, email-based patch system that can > then also be represented in a way that developers who have grown up in > the last five or ten years are more familiar with," she added. > > ... > > Should it migrate toward something more like, say, issues and pull > requests on the Microsoft-owned GitHub? “I’m not saying that there will > be a move in any time that I can see my crystal ball’s broken but I do > think there needs to be expansions in the way people can enter that > workflow,” said Novotny. > > “It is a fairly specific workflow that is a challenge for some newer > developers to engage with. As an example, my partner submitted a patch > to OpenBSD a few weeks ago, and he had to set up an entirely new mail > client which didn’t mangle his email message to HTML-ise or do other > things to it, so he could even make that one patch. That’s a barrier to > entry that’s pretty high for somebody who may want to be a first-time > contributor.”" > > https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/ > >
