On 28/11/2020 16.00, Stasiek Michalski wrote:
Am Sa, 28. Nov, 2020 um 3:43 P. M. schrieb Mark Stopka <>:
It is not a joke, I understand the argument of immutability, but as you omitted (I believe that was one of the arguments made in favor of top-posting in the Hacker News linked earlier), I was reacting to a large mail size, body size creep is a reality, and I was merely suggesting a solution for problem at hand, where that leads further is for a whole another debate and all factors would have to be considered in such, and I am not looking into having that debate now.
TL;DR it is something other members of the community can think about and we can decide months later, or never open again, but it brings the so called 90% upside with the 10% downside, we live in a world where we don't delete emails anymore, they are archived,...
If the problem is the size, we can limit the size of the accepted mails very easily in mailman. We lifted the default size restriction because the emails from scripts not getting through (most notably Tumbleweed snapshot announcement), we can give tokens to the scripts to send emails that get accepted despite the restriction (I would recommend talking with the release managers of every distro/variant beforehand though ;)
I have the vague recollection of some place where software would directly reject a post if it had a large percent of quoted materials. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)