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Re: plain text only policy prohibits the use of android based mobile devices

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 18, 2011, 23:31 UTC
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Please send such requests to the list admins at vger.kernel.org directly. I do not think people that are active on this list do not have much influence on the filtering policy, and also I suspect not many list admins read this list to trawl for request like this.

Having said that, I personally would not want to see non-text messages myself, even though I often find myself not having any access to the list but via gmail and I find it quite limiting. But I tend to consider that not allowing pure text messages is a gmail bug/misfeature and needs to be fixed not by allowing html cruft on the list, but by enabling poor gmail users to send pure text when they want to.

Yes, I sit in Mountain View, but I suspect that pure text messages are not anywhere near the top of the task list of the people who run gmail, and I know I do not have much influence on that matter, either.

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  1. Eugene SajineMay 18, 2011
  2. J.H.May 18, 2011
  3. David MillerMay 18, 2011
  4. Eugene SajineMay 18, 2011
  5. ellis@spinics.netMay 18, 2011
  6. Eugene SajineMay 18, 2011
  7. Eugene SajineMay 18, 2011
  8. david@lang.hmMay 18, 2011
  9. ellis@spinics.netMay 18, 2011
  10. Tim MazidMay 18, 2011
  11. Eugene SajineMay 19, 2011
  12. Junio C HamanoMay 19, 2011
  13. david@lang.hmMay 19, 2011
  14. Junio C HamanoMay 18, 2011
  15. Randal L. SchwartzMay 19, 2011
  16. David BrownMay 19, 2011
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