On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 4:48 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <domi...@greysector.net> wrote: > Dear developers, > sorry for a slightly off-topic post, but I've noticed that a significant > number of posters is sending HTML e-mail to this list (not to mention > top-replying), which generates unnecessary network traffic. Some people > pay for every bit downloaded, so they're paying for the same information > twice, because the e-mails are sent with multipart/alternative format, > which contains BOTH text/plain and text/html. One thing I noticed those > senders have in common is that they use Gmail. > > So, a plea to Gmail users: please stop sending HTML e-mail to Fedora > mailing lists.
It's a valid complaint. Gmail has a Plain text mode in the popdown menu to the right of the trash. Usually this is a sticky setting, but for reasons I can't figure out it sometimes silently unsticks (I think only on replies, not new mails). And Gmail on both iOS and Android lacks the option entirely, which is where you're going to get the bulk of top posting and html replies. Considering it's 2018, and plain text and bottom posting are policies, I'd like to think some clever person could make a mailing list program apply the policy by striping out the html, recognizing top posting and putting it at the bottom of the quoted text. And in fact this could have been done 10 years ago but for whatever reason people seem to prefer endlessly pointing to impossible guidelines and then complaining when people or their chosen MUA fails the policy. Meanwhile over on the vger kernel mailing lists, they bounce emails that contain html. Which is super annoying because now I can't reply from my phone, but at least no one is complaining about html emails on any of those lists. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
