On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 7:43 PM Simon Lees <sflees@suse.de> wrote:
Hi
On 4/16/24 8:49 PM, Richard Brown wrote:
Replying in Plain Text, as required by the Project's Rules:
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_lists_subscription#Can_I_send_attac...
Please can you start doing the same?
The mailing list administrators (not myself) made it clear last time this was raised, that this is no longer the case and html emails are clearly no longer rejected by the list.
They gave two main reasons for this from memory.
Firstly unlike the old list software the current list software is capable of showing html emails correctly in the archive.
Secondly it makes our mailing lists a more welcoming and friendly place for newer contributors who may not be aware of the differences between html and plain text email.
As such the part of the wiki page that states html email will be blocked is clearly wrong and the last impression I got from the mailing list admins was that we shouldn't strongly discourage html email (but we shouldn't also encourage it). In a 5 minute search of my mailbox I couldn't find the post where they mentioned this so maybe it was off list or maybe part of my memory is also wrong.
I think Jacob and I told you this at oSC when we were working through the Mailman transition. There was also a third reason in that some mail systems force HTML mail no matter what the sender does (for example, to inject standard footers per company policy) and having their email rejected due to forces outside of their control is unfair to them. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!