Re: [GENERAL] Attachments

2016-02-02 Thread Tom Lane
Vick Khera writes: > (4) loses historical information when the linked document goes away. Yeah. Historically we've been very down on bug reports or patch submissions that do not provide all the requested information right in the message. This is important for archival reasons. The Postgres mai

Re: [GENERAL] Attachments

2016-02-02 Thread Vick Khera
On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 4:36 PM, John McKown wrote: > (3) save space on the various archives. (4) loses historical information when the linked document goes away.

Re: [GENERAL] Attachments

2016-02-02 Thread John McKown
I prefer how the R mailing list works: No attachments of any kind and no HTML messages allowed. Just plain text email. If someone needs to supply something too large for a single email, they must put it on a Web site (such as GitHub, for example) and then include a URL for that. That is: (1) much s

[GENERAL] Attachments

2016-02-02 Thread FarjadFarid(ChkNet)
Dear all, May I humble request that only plain text attachments should be posted. This safe guards everyone against from accidental viruses been added to the email in transit. Perhaps this should have been on the CoC for everyone’s safety. Thank you.