On Wed, 30 May 2007 13:23:31 -0400 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 08:05:28AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 30 May 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: > > > > > > I'll try and fix up the formatting and repost this patch. > > > > Thanks. > > > > > I suspect some > > > of the issues are from the added code clashing with the way the existing > > > code was formatted. > > > > Well, I have to admit that I might not have reacted so much if it hadn't > > been for the Thunderbird thing, which made it look _really_ strange at > > first, so then I had to go outside my mail client to look closer. And once > > I looked closer, I just went "aiieee, it wasn't all the email client" ;) > > I got fed up of telling people to reconfigure their MUAs a long time > ago and ended up with this in my .procmailrc > > :0fw > | /usr/bin/perl -pe 's/^(Content-Type: .*)format=flowed/\1format=flawed/' > > It doesn't solve all the worlds problems, but it least makes that crap > readable in _my_ MUA. Sadly, if it's a patch that I have to apply > then chances are I'll have to get them to resend it with something > else anyway, as it's inevitably buggered in some other way because > thunderbird really is that dire. > > I'm convinced there's some contest to see who can make the worst > graphical mail client for Linux. I'm not sure what the prize is, > or who's winning, but the entries so far are horrific. > Lotus Notes has no serious competition. Andy's patch-checking script will (should) detect wordwrapping, tab-expansion and hopefully space-stuffing. When we get that sorted out, people who submit broken patches to one of the lists should get a robot reply within minutes telling them what they did wrong, so things will become largely self-correcting. I am sooooo looking forward to that thing. <Sends note to Nobel prize committee> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
