From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: david@lang.hm Subject: Re: plain text only policy prohibits the use of android based mobile devices Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:14:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <201105182217.p4IMHIk2001872@amd.spinics.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Eugene Sajine , git@vger.kernel.org To: ellis@spinics.net X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu May 19 01:15:02 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 1QMpxF-00058P-T9 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 19 May 2011 01:15:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755687Ab1ERXO4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2011 19:14:56 -0400 Received: from mail.lang.hm ([64.81.33.126]:59873 "EHLO bifrost.lang.hm" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755591Ab1ERXO4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 May 2011 19:14:56 -0400 Received: from asgard.lang.hm (asgard.lang.hm [10.0.0.100]) by bifrost.lang.hm (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-3) with ESMTP id p4INEpqP002323; Wed, 18 May 2011 16:14:51 -0700 X-X-Sender: dlang@asgard.lang.hm In-Reply-To: <201105182217.p4IMHIk2001872@amd.spinics.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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