administrivia: mails containing HTML attachments

administrivia: mails containing HTML attachments

[Stephen Rothwell]

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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

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Re: administrivia: mails containing HTML attachments

[Gabriel Paubert]

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

Re: administrivia: mails containing HTML attachments

[Stewart Smith]

Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> 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

[Andrew Donnellan]

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.donnellan@au1.ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited