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From: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.ibm.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
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Subject: Re: administrivia: mails containing HTML attachments
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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.