On Friday, February 28, 2025 1:28:01 AM MST Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu Feb 27, 2025 at 4:48 PM GMT, Soren Stoutner wrote: > > “There is no expectation that emails sent to the mailing lists are > > wrapped by the sender at a particular column, but those sending emails > > may wrap them if they choose.” > > This is effectively recommending nothing at all. If we were to accept > this change in spirit, I would suggest deleting the existing sentence > and not replacing it with something which basically says nothing. That > keeps the CoC as short as possible.
My concern with that is two-fold. 1. If we say nothing, there will, from time to time, be people who complain about emails not being wrapped at a particular column. I think we need to be explicit that nobody should feel they are authorized to complain about this on the mailing lists. 2. If we don’t explicitly state that it is OK if people do wrap their emails, from time to time people will complain that some emails are wrapped. I think we need to make it explicit that it is not OK to complain if other people do wrap their emails. The CoC is a good place to list things it is not OK to complain to other people about if there is a high likelihood they are going to do so unless it is explicit, especially when it represents a change in long-standing behavior. > However, as stated above, since format=flowed gracefully degrades I > don't see a reason why we could not recommend it. I agree with that. I think the above statement includes that for people who already know what format=flowed is (and have an MUA that can do so), but perhaps it should be more explicit. Maybe the following. “There is no expectation that emails sent to the mailing lists are wrapped by the sender at a particular column, but those sending emails may wrap them if they choose. Users may send in format=flowed if they desire and their MUA supports it.” -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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