From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 7 20:32: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B261537B403 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 20:31:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f983VuM71411 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 20:31:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF2D38CC; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 20:31:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Warner Losh Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , Jason , Terry Lambert , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PATCHES for Kris Kennaway to commit In-Reply-To: <200110080114.f981Eg755232@harmony.village.org> Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 20:31:56 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011008033156.0DF2D38CC@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > In message <20011008013500.A17148@hades.hell.gr> Giorgos Keramidas writes: > : Don't use attachments. MIME is evil. Copy/paste the patch in the > : report. There are people out there that do not have MIME-aware MUA's > : and you'll break the nice query-pr command that developers can use in > : freefall to read the entire text of a PR. > : > : freefall% query-pr -F 27653 | more > : > : If you use base64/quoted-printable or some other exotic encoding of > : the attached patch, the above command will be pretty useless. > > Actually, MIME isn't evil, if used properly. Trouble is that gnats > doesn't use it properly :-( s/use it properly/use it at all/. It effectively destroys MIME. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message