From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21582 invoked by alias); 25 Nov 2012 01:53:35 -0000 Received: (qmail 21559 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Nov 2012 01:53:26 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vc0-f175.google.com (HELO mail-vc0-f175.google.com) (209.85.220.175) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 25 Nov 2012 01:53:21 +0000 Received: by mail-vc0-f175.google.com with SMTP id m8so6639592vcd.20 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 17:53:19 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=3JU/aa4DdkCkkdBBitXx1ogNHyBFiEGur3BXvkL9gaQ=; b=i9tw49+hCLkTHlFSNPCrMlx7IER15eMMVYmEgI4cBFlmLjKpbwxmEyDIxEmUnn6GBp cdKQNvA5q50zyCf1iphfDlNhkqUdJlkvrvqvqEFGs5tESlGF3mbF/27BGefQVMHd2pB0 HvmNzSxpAXJW/pMRq4cK9SdPYKSyjF9atTEgJIHFnHaK6eHwekpEP4cWV0iasUqVKrSo Q62pvETw/14fA1EnkRE60ja2yVHVC0/wjro7RpYhrwdbgGQaJNVT7UaRumx63oCuVbke bnlpiXBPiiCCbuTyyUgTspALeEur57zw12pIofD0EfVR6qldnY7SMcv7LDnyFXbYycaH CjSg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.178.234 with SMTP id db10mr11100753vdc.78.1353808399553; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 17:53:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.58.143.80 with HTTP; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 17:53:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20121124194301.GA19407@www2.mrbrklyn.com> References: <20121124194301.GA19407@www2.mrbrklyn.com> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 01:56:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Could we start accepting rich-text postings on the gcc lists? From: Daniel Berlin To: Ruben Safir Cc: Ian Lance Taylor , Diego Novillo , Andrew Pinski , overseers@gcc.gnu.org, GCC Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmWZzTd3YebAbN8iBrpRB4nkg+OIeZczi4REsC6F4hUU3HQhWTENFLscIDmwv+RIKEkIfve Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-q4/txt/msg00096.txt.bz2 Sorry dude, I don't engage in substantive conversation with abusive trolls. On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:58:33PM -0500, Daniel Berlin wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> > Diego Novillo writes: >> > >> >> Sure. First I wanted to find out whether this requirement is just a >> >> technical limitation with our mailing list software. >> > >> > It is not a technical limitation. We explicitly reject HTML e-mail. = We >> > could accept it. >> > >> > As Jonathan pointed out, accepting HTML e-mail and then displaying it = in >> > the web archives will make us even more of a spam target than we alrea= dy >> > are, and will mean that we will need some mechanisms for identifying a= nd >> > removing spam and virus links in the web pages. >> >> I'd love to see data on this. > > Go generate it with you own mailing list and let us know. > >> As others have pointed out, almost >> every other open source project accepts html email. > > > Wrong > > And it is silly to burden everyone else with the bulk and storage of > that nonsense, let alone the multiple fonts and standards and CSS style > sheets and missappropriate images and links. > > Its time for users to get with it and not use every stupid thing shoved > down their through. And PLEASE tell me you write you C programming in > adroind using your thumb prints. > > Ruben > > -- > http://www.mrbrklyn.com - Interesting Stuff > http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software > > So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like = Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI S= afir 1998 > > http://fairuse.nylxs.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Saf= ir 2002 > > "Yeah - I write Free Software...so SUE ME" > > "The tremendous problem we face is that we are becoming sharecroppers to = our own cultural heritage -- we need the ability to participate in our own = society." > > "> I'm an engineer. I choose the best tool for the job, politics be damne= d.< > You must be a stupid engineer then, because politcs and technology have b= een attached at the hip since the 1st dynasty in Ancient Egypt. I guess yo= u missed that one." > > =A9 Copyright for the Digital Millennium