Re: administrivia: mails containing HTML attachments
On 16/05/18 14:48, Stephen Rothwell wrote: Hi all, I have decided that any email sent to the linuxppc-dev mailing list that contains an HTML attachment (or is just an HTML email) will be rejected. The vast majority of such mail are spam (and I have to spend time dropping them manually at the moment) and, I presume, anyone on this list is capable of sending no HTML email. Feel free to discuss ;-) As it turns out, there's some bugs in how Patchwork handles HTML emails that can screw up the resulting patch mboxes when retrieved from Patchwork. We're hoping to fix that in the next Patchwork release, but in the meantime this restriction should stop us running into any issues on this list. -- Andrew Donnellan OzLabs, ADL Canberra andrew.donnel...@au1.ibm.com IBM Australia Limited
Re: administrivia: mails containing HTML attachments
Stephen Rothwell writes: > I have decided that any email sent to the linuxppc-dev mailing list > that contains an HTML attachment (or is just an HTML email) will be > rejected. The vast majority of such mail are spam (and I have to spend > time dropping them manually at the moment) and, I presume, anyone on > this list is capable of sending no HTML email. certainly one way to get those pesky IBM Verse users off. To be fair, Documentation/process/email-clients.rst also warns them appropriately. I fully support ditching HTML mail. -- Stewart Smith OPAL Architect, IBM.
Re: administrivia: mails containing HTML attachments
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 02:48:29PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, > > I have decided that any email sent to the linuxppc-dev mailing list > that contains an HTML attachment (or is just an HTML email) will be > rejected. The vast majority of such mail are spam (and I have to spend > time dropping them manually at the moment) and, I presume, anyone on > this list is capable of sending no HTML email. Go ahead, I couldn't agree more. The correlation between spam and "HTeMaiL" is indeed extremely large. Cheers, Gabriel
administrivia: mails containing HTML attachments
Hi all, I have decided that any email sent to the linuxppc-dev mailing list that contains an HTML attachment (or is just an HTML email) will be rejected. The vast majority of such mail are spam (and I have to spend time dropping them manually at the moment) and, I presume, anyone on this list is capable of sending no HTML email. Feel free to discuss ;-) -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell pgp8uhzD7GpGc.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature
