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From: Martin Bligh <mbligh@mbligh.org>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, jgarzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:42:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E6EF9B.1010101@mbligh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46E6EE96.9060309@nortel.com>

Chris Friesen wrote:
> Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
>> +Thunderbird (GUI)
>> +
>> +By default, thunderbird likes to mangle text, but there are ways to
>> +coerce it into being nice.
> 
> Can someone describe the problems with just attaching the patch in 
> Thunderbird?  It's what Martin says he does on the linked document...

The faint whining noise from the recipients at the other end.

Mostly if it's text/plain, the noise is very faint, only the
most militant care, and it's fairly easy to ignore ;-)

M.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-11 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-11 17:16 [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches Randy Dunlap
2007-09-11 17:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-11 18:38   ` Lee Revell
2007-09-11 18:52     ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-12  5:07       ` WANG Cong
2007-09-11 22:05     ` Sami Farin
2007-09-12  3:40   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-11 18:03 ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-11 18:17   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-11 18:31     ` Nicolas Pitre
2007-09-11 18:46       ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-11 19:09     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-11 19:08   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-11 18:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-12  5:24   ` WANG Cong
2007-09-12  5:55     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-12 15:02       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-12 15:43         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-11 19:37 ` Chris Friesen
2007-09-11 19:42   ` Martin Bligh [this message]
2007-09-11 19:55   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-12  3:26     ` Chris Friesen
2007-09-12 18:08       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-12 18:17         ` Chris Friesen
2007-09-12 22:35           ` Stefan Richter
2007-09-12 19:16     ` Rik van Riel
2007-09-12 19:53       ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-09-12 23:09         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-11 19:54 ` Stefan Richter

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