On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 11/23/2012 08:12 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Diego Novillo <dnovi...@google.com> wrote: >>> In this day and age of rich-text capable mailers, restricting postings >>> to be text-only seems quaint and antiquated. Are there any hard >>> requirements that force us to only accept plain text messages? > > It's a reasonable compromise, I would have thought: it makes things > easier for the reader while restricting the writer. There are many > more readers than writers, so this is a win.
Well, it's not actually restricting writers, as I showed in that thread (there are others). When the writer reaches the intended individual recipient, they proceed to ignore the rejection message from the list. This is a net loss for us. And restricting writers, may result in the loss of contributors in the medium/long term. We are putting several roadblocks for new contributors. This is not a good long term strategy for us. Diego.
