On 27/8/20 2:12 pm, andrew fabbro wrote:
>> “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
On 27/8/20 7:27 am, Peter Nicolai Mathias Hansteen wrote:
> Sort of related, I dust off an exchange/outlook rant of mine from a little
> while back (most of it still applies, unfortunately):
> https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2011/02/problem-isnt-email-its-microsoft.html
>
On 27/8/20 6:17 am, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> On 8/26/20 3:08 PM, Chris Bennett wrote:
>> 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
Let's send patches through Teams or Discord. I think this is the way to go.
On 26/08/2020 10:28, Frank Beuth wrote:
"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
> On Aug 27, 2020, at 01:16, Janne Johansson wrote:
> It doesn't matter if it was "change spaces to tabs", "html made carriage
> returns where a space was found" or if it was "make two - - chars into one
> single utf-8 -- token" or "spell check/correction edited fnd_trgl_dsk() to
>
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 05:44:12PM -0700, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
Why OpenBSD is to blame when Gmail -- after so many years -- still
doesn't have proper support for sending text-based attachments the
right way?
Because large corporations are always right, and the idea is to bend the
Den ons 26 aug. 2020 kl 21:17 skrev Mike Hammett :
> Text-only was great in 1985.
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> Midwest Internet Exchange
> The Brothers WISP
>
Being able to publish and/or send a really small file from computer A to
computer B unchanged in this day and age
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 2:36 AM Frank Beuth wrote:
> “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
On 2020-W35-3 08:28 +, Frank Beuth wrote:
"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 Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 04:17:48PM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
> On 8/26/20 3:08 PM, Chris Bennett wrote:
> > 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
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 7:27 AM Chris Bennett
wrote:
>
> I was recently told by a youngster that I was a total idiot for working
> my way through the new CSS to understand it well. I needed to go
> straight over to some Framework that assumes I am stupid, which I
> would be if I didn't take the
On 08-26 21:47, Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That is not as easy as it was, mainly
> On Aug 26, 2020, at 12:08, Chris Bennett
> wrote:
>
> 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.
I encourage everyone to do this, but
>
> “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
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 09:47:24PM +0200, Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That is not
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.
That is not as easy as it was, mainly because of IP reputation. If you
have your own MX and
On 8/26/20 3:08 PM, Chris Bennett wrote:
> 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.
I
e Brothers WISP
>
> - Original Message -
>
> From: "Frank Beuth"
> 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 driv
Text-only was great in 1985.
-
Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
Midwest Internet Exchange
The Brothers WISP
- Original Message -
From: "Frank Beuth"
To: misc@openbsd.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2020 3:28:50 AM
Subject: Microsoft's war on
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 02:37:24AM -0700, Greg Thomas wrote:
> "... he had to set up an entirely new mail client which didn’t mangle his
> email message to HTML-ise... That’s a barrier to entry that’s pretty
> high..."
>
> Wow. Life's rough.
Surely easier than RTFMing to find out how to send
She never really says how old her "partner" is.
Perhaps he is a developer who has literally "...grown up in the
last five or ten years..."
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 9:50 AM Rafael Possamai wrote:
> >- Original message -
> >From: Greg Thomas
> >
> >"... he had to set up an entirely new
>- Original message -
>From: Greg Thomas
>
>"... he had to set up an entirely new mail client which didn’t mangle his
>email message to HTML-ise... That’s a barrier to entry that’s pretty
>high..."
>
>Wow. Life's rough.
Most desktop/web email clients I've ever used have plain-text mode
"... he had to set up an entirely new mail client which didn’t mangle his
email message to HTML-ise... That’s a barrier to entry that’s pretty
high..."
Wow. Life's rough.
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 2:31 AM Frank Beuth wrote:
> "Linux kernel development which is driven by plain-text email
>
"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
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