html email (was Re: cygserver blocking on semctl(SETVAL) call)

[mwoehlke]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 02:11:27PM -0500, mwoehlke wrote:
>> Ethan Tira-Thompson wrote:
>>> PS First attempt of this email got kicked back because it had a
>>> text/html mime type alongside the text/plain.
>> You mean we actually do that? Sweet!
> 
> Yes, and as you surmised, it is a fairly good intelligence filter.
> 
> Btw, why move this topic to the cygwin-talk list?  As much as I think
> it's a stupid discussion, it is on-topic for the cygwin list.

Because, as you pointed out, it is a stupid discussion? My own instinct 
is to move anything that isn't Cygwin to -talk. This is about the list, 
not Cygwin itself. But it was a border area, so if I have anything 
purposeful to say I'll move it back.

>>> Wouldn't it be nice to have syntax-highlighted code samples?
>> If you plan to highlight your example code (and by what standard?), you
>> have too much time on your hands.
>>
>> For the record, GRC's newsgroup also rejects HTML messages (as well as
>> anything over 20kb), so Cygwin isn't alone here.
> 
> There are a lot of mailing lists at sourceware.org and gcc.gnu.org with
> the same policy.
> 
> But, IMO, the technique of "I would like you to help me but, before I
> do, let me tell you that the method you've chosen to allow me to do that
> is really not to my liking" still seems like a pretty bad way of asking
> for help if you are expecting results.

No argument here. :-)

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Matthew
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