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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:55:20 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com> To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com> CC: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, akpm <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] doc: about email clients for Linux kernel patches Chris Friesen wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: > >> +Thunderbird (GUI) >> + >> +By default, thunderbird likes to mangle text, but there are ways to >> +coerce it into being nice. > > Can someone describe the problems with just attaching the patch in > Thunderbird? It's what Martin says he does on the linked document... Email clients don't like to quote attachments, even text/plain ones, which then makes attached patches much more difficult to review and comment on (i.e. you greatly reduce the number of reviewers). Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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