On Monday, March 3, 2025 12:48:24 PM MST Jeremy Stanley wrote: > On 2025-03-03 10:35:32 -0700 (-0700), Soren Stoutner wrote: > [...] > > > I am not an expert on format=flowed, so I can’t vouch for the > > following myself, but I thought it was interesting that the > > article above linked to the following: > > > > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/MailingListEtiquette#Thunderbird > > > > Which has instructions for disabling format=flowed, saying it > > caused problems. I’m not sure how much OpenStack represents > > general consensus for what works best on mailing lists, but it is > > at least one data point. > > I'm the main list admin for the OpenStack mailing lists these days, > and I haven't observed it causing any issues. Also, as the main > admin for that wiki, I feel compelled to point out the article you > linked has included that disclaimer about Thunderbird's > format=flowed problems since before it was migrated from MoinMoin to > Mediawiki over 13 years ago, so it very well could be outdated. > Based on the context in the last sentence of that section, I think > it may have been something to do with inlined diffs/patches being > malformed by the client with that option enabled, so I wouldn't be > surprised if it's been fixed in the decade+ since. > > I'll go ahead and annotate the recommendation to suggest it's > probably outdated, thanks for pointing that out!
Good to know. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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