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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:16:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E83B16.2070608@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46E6F2A8.2020104@pobox.com>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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...
> 
> Email clients don't like to quote attachments, even text/plain ones, 
> which then makes attached patches much more difficult to review and 
> comment on (i.e. you greatly reduce the number of reviewers).

Interestingly, Thunderbird does this right and simply
adds text/plain attachments to the quoted text.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-12 19:18 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
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 [this message]
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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