Re: Patches in mailing list archives

Jack Repenning wrote:
> At 1:16 AM +0100 8/2/03, Julian Foad wrote:
>
>> What is the software behind either of these archive viewers? Can we
>> have any influence over it? It would be good to add a "download raw
>> email message" option, and/or fix the bugs in their email-to-HTML
>> converters.
>
> There are things we can do to improve tigris, at any rate. But I'm not
> sure it's really worth doing:

Well, those bugs don't only apply to patches. They ought to be fixed. You are not interested in fixing them but I or someone else might be.

> there are other common things that damage
> email before the message reaches the site.

Yes, there are.

> It's much preferable to put
> patches into attachments.

... except that the list policy is to prefer in-line patches (because they are easier to read for some people, depending on how their email program behaves).

- Julian

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Received on Sat Aug 2 02:42:00 2003