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cinebox@hackers.town

Andrew

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@mattl don't most clients default to plaintext for new messages or do they do HTML?

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jef@mastodon.social

Jef Poskanzer

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@mattl Requiring text/plain is bad. Sending only text/html is also bad. Both are violations of Postel's Law.

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luis_in_brief@social.coop

Luis Villa

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@mattl @jef HTML email is nearly 30 years old. I would like to be surprised people still hold a grudge (and/or use tools that still hold a grudge) but sadly I am not surprised.

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jef@mastodon.social

Jef Poskanzer

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@mattl I think HTML email is horrible and never read it, which is how I know that some places do send HTML-only.

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luis_in_brief@social.coop

Luis Villa

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@mattl @jef (HTML email is so old that, when it was released, I was naive enough to believe people would not hold grudges about technology for 25+ years.)

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foo@fosstodon.org

Ryan Finnie

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@luis_in_brief @mattl Similarly, I'm still angry that LKML has a 20+ year grudge against attachments.

MIME would be perfect for sending patches to LKML. It's resistant to formatting corruption and every mail client has supported it since the 90s. But no, they'd rather have a whole soup n*zi system in place to make it as hard as possible for the average person to contribute.

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luis_in_brief@social.coop

Luis Villa

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@foo @mattl That’s @monsieuricon ‘s music!

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monsieuricon

K. Ryabitsev 🍁

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@foo @luis_in_brief @mattl I don't disagree with you, but I do have a good logical answer to why it's this way -- LKML is about code review, not just code submission, and reviewing code in attachments is not straightforward.
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