From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eugene Sajine Subject: Re: plain text only policy prohibits the use of android based mobile devices Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 10:33:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <201105182217.p4IMHIk2001872@amd.spinics.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: ellis@spinics.net, git@vger.kernel.org To: david@lang.hm X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 19 16:34:04 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QN4Id-0002DW-V9 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 16:34:04 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752850Ab1ESOd6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2011 10:33:58 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:46808 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751598Ab1ESOd6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2011 10:33:58 -0400 Received: by wya21 with SMTP id 21so2021015wya.19 for ; Thu, 19 May 2011 07:33:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Z70uxAlXu9v0QZ/qzfiv5ev7hfYYGkYgpPDzV6YyaME=; b=BX8NUcR1w7AuATHHaT0KLpUmh7GAM0miHB1xIKRa40p+ESmRav3V/DLCRxSJelL1yg pdl/8GoLgqWAhQgeIEMXml28h+AB4OTpmaUWKPr5x2o+FQN5HEeyddijuttjHSqBPaIv 5YfNY5mqRTSWCNV9iggpTBa05a+ELLhO9CsLg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=oNdatj9Nvdv53Ex2z7FxCHZu8dWvR08Rs7ly+cjAduMmo2sNQE8VkWi3ayw+6KVCM1 Ry/pVncA9CdfQe8UCHFeQ8azvGRd+DeNksM8eu4xvFRPUCXHxLnoVIG67M7Tor0hQMax W9bJ3avOZLzBP6gmrQ/Km+liDkJTrgivAYxF0= Received: by 10.227.197.21 with SMTP id ei21mr936165wbb.107.1305815636737; Thu, 19 May 2011 07:33:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.12.209 with HTTP; Thu, 19 May 2011 07:33:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:14 PM, wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2011, ellis@spinics.net wrote: > >>> The necessity to use the desktop in order to send a message to the >>> list is annoying and not quite contemporary. >> >> So the list should change just because your mail client is broken? > > if the client is sending out multipart mail with both a HTML and a text > portion, then having the list accept the text portion and strip the HTML > portion off seems like a reasonable request. > > I am very much a text e-mail person (I use pine almost exclusivly), but this > doesn't seem that bad. > > David Lang > That is exactly what I'm thinking about. IMHO multipart message is completely valid format and list could preserve its integrity by just pulling out the plain text part of the message. And it doesn't matter which client I'm using and if it is broken or not. I think that the gmail client of android 2+ and 3.0+ is in fact broken in that regard, but the one from 3.1+ is not. That's is why i was not asking about "openning up the gates for broken clients" and allowing HTML content. I'm talking specifically about 3.1+ android versions that will inherit this gmail client behavior and they are coming soon. Now I posted this to the list for few reasons: 1. If only one person contacts list admins about such matter - he will get the answer i got up in the thread. Within a blink of an eye. 2. I wanted to run it by list to understand if there are others who are annoyed by the way this policy works and to get their input. Do they think the list could accommodate the multipart messages or they just using some other clients or they just don't care. As of now i see the majority doesn't care, so it is up to me to decide how I'm going to work with this. Many thanks for the feedback about this bikeshedding issue. Eugene