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>
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