Re: Linux 2.5.38

Jeff Garzik
2002-09-23T02:34:50Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Peter Rival wrote:
>
>>Patch below fixes the problem. Linus, please apply. Here's hoping Mozilla
>>doesn't blow up the patch
>
>
> It does (or something else does) - tabs have been space'ified.
>
> What the hell is _wrong_ with mail client authors that they can't get
> something as simple as keeping a file intact _correct_? Why do email
> clients think they have to corrupt the input on something as simple as
> plain 7-bit ascii (oe even 8-bit latin1, for that matter)? Silly buggers.

I've been sending patches via Netscape Mail and Mozilla Mail for
years... inline has never ever worked, but attachments always work[1].
And if the attachments are detected to be text by the internal magic,
the attachments are properly marked text/plain and sent cleartext...

So, attach patches and make sure the patches don't have binary crud in
them, and you're fine.

Jeff

[1] always being defined as 99% not 100% ;-)