On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 4:49 AM Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
<dominik(a)greysector.net> wrote:
Dear developers,
sorry for a slightly off-topic post, but I've noticed that a significant
number of posters is sending HTML e-mail to this list (not to mention
top-replying), which generates unnecessary network traffic. Some people
pay for every bit downloaded, so they're paying for the same information
twice, because the e-mails are sent with multipart/alternative format,
which contains BOTH text/plain and text/html. One thing I noticed those
senders have in common is that they use Gmail.
The place to fix this is at the listserver. Either bounce HTML emails
like
kernel.org does, or strip the HTML. I support the latter but not
the former. It severely limits my participation to have emails bounce.
As for the top and bottom post thing, I agree top posting is annoying
but again, that ship has sailed on mobile. There's no going back, and
I wish this whole debate would just die by us giving up and going with
top posting as the preferred way.
--
Chris Murphy