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

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>]

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.

>>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.

cgf