Re: Recommending attached instead of inline patches?

--On Monday, August 04, 2003 10:50:05 -0500 kfogel@collab.net wrote:

> I'm beginning to think we should just change that policy. It's
> slightly more convenient to review an inline patch -- but not by much.
> And sometimes people's mailers munge them, and mail archivers don't
> behave as well, etc. The costs may outweigh the benefit...

-0. I don't trust mailers to get this right, and we don't need more
obstacles to reviewing patches that are sent in. I don't give a fig about
archivers if it means that it's impossible to review the attachments for
people reading the list currently.

IIRC, at one point Sander tried attaching patches (if not here, then to
dev@httpd), but LookOut! always munged them so that no one else could ever
view them. I think it was eventually resolved that it was impossible for
Outlook to do this right with attachments at all. Considering how many
people use Outlook, asking for attachments by default is going to be a mess
that I don't want a part of. -- justin

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