2021-09-23 09:53 (UTC-0700), Stephen Hemminger: > On Thu, 23 Sep 2021 19:42:24 +0300 > Dmitry Kozlyuk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 2021-09-23 09:15 (UTC+0000), Ali Alnubani: > > > [...] > > > - Disable conversion of text/html to plain text. > > > Mailman currently strips MIME attachments and does text/html to plain > > > text conversion. > > > > Why not just reject HTML messages? > > Because too much of the world uses Outlook.
That's the reason for my concern. Outlook's handling of quotes in HTML mode is unbelievably poor. Prolonged discussion, started by a message with several points, inevitably becomes a mix of colored text inside(!) the quote; or top-posting at best. More often than not it ends with an offline discussion by voice or whatever. Which defeats the purpose of a public mailing list: to preserve discussions. Outlook can send plain text, so its users are not limited by forbidding HTML. Hopefully, dev@ will remain as-is anyway, because threads are usually started by a plain text patch, and Outlook inherits this property for replies.
