Hi, Wolfgang. I just reinstalled my Windows the day before yesterday, and I used Outlook to send and get E-mail without changing default settings. Of course, it is MIME based on 64.
You are one of the most respectable people of mine because u'r project benefits us just like some other open source projects. Maybe u'r policy is all right, and it is no a big deal. But one more thing, why this policy are not posted on SourceFroge's webpage, and it is not found in this maillist's welcome letter. I don't think it is justic if you refuse a beginner becausehe broken the default rule in your heart.
Thank u and Craig very much.
Flab
----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang Denk" wd@denx.de To: "Craig Hughes" craig@hughes-family.org Cc: "flab" zsuly@hotmail.com; u-boot-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:16 AM Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] Cross compiling problem of u-boot-1.1.1 on powerpc850
In message F67283E4-285E-11D9-B514-000A95A5473A@hughes-family.org you
wrote:
Please do not send base 64 encoded messages.
Please do not send HTML messages.
Please send plain text only.
Message unreadable, ignored. Sorry.
Not sure how one would do this if one is Chinese and using hotmail for email... In the 21st century one might suggest that if a base64-encoded message in a non-western character set is unreadable, the problem is on the receiving side not the sending side.
Craig, I disagree. This is policy, and the policy on this list is to post in plain text only. You can do it, I can do it, everybody can do it. Using HTML or base64 encoding is a waste of bandwidth, and it makes the message unprocessable with standard tools like grep etc.
If the poster is a Chinese or an Indian or a Russian or whatever does not matter here: we all post in English anyway, so you don't need any fancy characters - plain old ASCII code will do.
It is just good will that such messages are accepted at all on this mailing list. The longer this continues, the more I'm tempted to automatically reject all messages that contain HTML or base64 encoded text. Maybe we should reject top-posters and full-quoters as well ;-)
Of course I _can_ read such messages if I feel like it. I don't _want_ to see such postings on this list, and I think I make this clear often enough.
To make it absolutely clean: I want only plain text postings, please.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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