Hard disagree on plain text emails. I didn't really have a strong opinion re the whole discussion about message boards vs. email, but IMO the world has moved on to rich text email with embedded media. I think the reliance on plain text email as the standard for this mailing list detracts significantly from the conversation. Inlining images makes it much easier to communicate typesetting questions and also much easier to quickly respond, especially when viewing messages on a cell phone.
Rich text emails with embedded media should IMO be supported as first class citizens of the mailing list. Saul On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 12:18 PM Valentin Petzel <valen...@petzel.at> wrote: > Hi Jean, > > I think Robin is talking about embedded images that are quoted on reply, > resulting in the same attachment being sent back and forth over and over > again. > > Of course this does not matter when you send plain text emails, which > should > be the sensible choice ... > > Cheers, > Valentin > > Am Samstag, 4. März 2023, 16:53:11 CET schrieb Jean Abou Samra: > > Le samedi 04 mars 2023 à 16:45 +0100, Robin Bannister a écrit : > > > Jean Abou Samra wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > We've been informed that the size of messages to this list containing > > > > large attachments is occasionally clogging up the GNU list server's > > > > mail delivery queue, causing distribution delays (not just for this > > > > list, but for everyone on the hundreds of other gnu.org lists). > > > > > > > > To avoid this, your friendly list admins have configured a max > message > > > > size of 512KB.> > > > Is there any specific advice for users taking screenshots? > > > > Not sure I understand the question. Why would they differ from other > kinds > > of attachments? > > > Especially inline ones: those get copied when quoted, cf 2021-09. > > > > What are you referring to precisely? There are lots of messages in the > list > > archives for September 2021. > >
