On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 10:56:24AM -0700, Ben Reser wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 07:15:26PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote:
> > Please try to send patches as mime attachment to ensure no corruption 
> > occurs.
> 
> Okay this is confusing.  Your scoreboard guidelines
> (http://www.netfilter.org/scoreboard/) say that you should include
> patches "straight in the body of the message, not MIME'd."  Honestly
> I've always found this policy bizzare.

This is because Rusty wrote it, and he wants to have it this way [like
many other kernel hackers incl. David Miller] because emacs doesn't
handle mime mail.

> Either way we should pick a standard and follow it.  Frankly MIME is a
> common standard and attaching patch is intuitive.  So I think we should
> go that route.  

yes. The core team agreed on that long time ago, since I'm handling
most patches these days I am the one to set the rules ;)

I'm updating the scoreboard/index.html now.

> Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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