Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 20:59:04 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Walter Parker <walterp@gmail.com>, Michael Gmelin <grembo@freebsd.org>, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Posting netiquette: HTML, attachments etc. Message-ID: <20220626185904.mqetrczfcubslxzp@aniel.nours.eu> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrCkOd5GTvFr4Cek-TDNp=PaQFgZV7k5RT7TFs56pW48w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAD2Ti2-UpyXYnNYCVCh%2BcUs-Q70b47CMeiPSK6BgYhB_3C0cLQ@mail.gmail.com> <753A27F9-9CEA-4592-A44F-91164917358B@freebsd.org> <CAMPTd_DeZL=E_fPb-VzwP%2B32stLMK68hzONAS21hjOr16m-apQ@mail.gmail.com> <CANCZdfrCkOd5GTvFr4Cek-TDNp=PaQFgZV7k5RT7TFs56pW48w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jun 26, 2022 at 12:32:41PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 12:20 PM Walter Parker <walterp@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So, utf-8 is good, posting to multiple lists is bad (but ok when you do > > it), what about the original post? He was asking about HTML. UTF-8 != HTML. > > UTF is a character encoding format. It is supported by most email clients > > and does not require HTML for support. > > > > Html is fine as well. Most modern mail platforms generate it for you, > whether you want them too or not. Most of the advice in appendix c is dated > and doesn't really match what people do on the lists. Phones and web based > Gmail are to large a presence to ignore or have policies against. I stopped > listening to complaints about how Gmail or my phone formatted posts 5 years > ago... and I'm definitely an old school straggler... > > Warner > Note that the mailing list engine will reject html only email, html is fine as long at it is created with text/plain alternative. Note that only the text/plain alternative will be used to construct the archive, and I will not ever work on trying to render properly an html only formatted thing via the archiver, it will require too many escaping and madness to be done safely, I will simply drop the ball to someone else here ;) bapt
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