On Monday, March 3, 2025 12:48:24 PM MST Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2025-03-03 10:35:32 -0700 (-0700), Soren Stoutner wrote:
> [...]
>
> > I am not an expert on format=flowed, so I can’t vouch for the
> > following myself, but I thought it was interesting that the
> > article above linked to the following:
> >
> > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/MailingListEtiquette#Thunderbird
> >
> > Which has instructions for disabling format=flowed, saying it
> > caused problems. I’m not sure how much OpenStack represents
> > general consensus for what works best on mailing lists, but it is
> > at least one data point.
>
> I'm the main list admin for the OpenStack mailing lists these days,
> and I haven't observed it causing any issues. Also, as the main
> admin for that wiki, I feel compelled to point out the article you
> linked has included that disclaimer about Thunderbird's
> format=flowed problems since before it was migrated from MoinMoin to
> Mediawiki over 13 years ago, so it very well could be outdated.
> Based on the context in the last sentence of that section, I think
> it may have been something to do with inlined diffs/patches being
> malformed by the client with that option enabled, so I wouldn't be
> surprised if it's been fixed in the decade+ since.
>
> I'll go ahead and annotate the recommendation to suggest it's
> probably outdated, thanks for pointing that out!
Good to know.
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Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org
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