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Re: Questions for all candidates



On Saturday, March 29, 2025 2:34:35 AM Mountain Standard Time Nilesh 
Patra wrote:
> On 28/03/25 9:33 pm, Gerardo Ballabio wrote:
> > I didn't realize it was a hard break. My fault.
> > 
> > In fact, thinking more about it, the hard break wasn't inserted by
> > Gmail, but by me copying and pasting from the web interface,
> > because I'm not suscribed to -vote and I read it there (that's
> > also why I can't set In-Reply-To correctly unless I'm actually
> > replying to an email that was sent to me, I've never found how to
> > add it manually in Gmail). When I reply to an actual email, my
> > quoting style works because there are no hard breaks within
> > sentences. I didn't realize that this case was different.
> 
> Just use a proper mail client where you can set that. It works
> reasonably well with (neo)mutt.
> 
> You are pretty much breaking all the threads wherever you reply to.

Notice how beautifully this problem would be solved if we no longer 
had hard breaks at 80 columns.  ;)

Debian needs to live in a world where people are not reprimanded for 
using common webmail clients.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org

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