From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, SW <sabrewolfy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: org-export-select-tags
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 03:39:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMXnza07RGCDNDK+QdiDsY14iEF0NoSXw20HYX55vgZdsjVuhQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9089.1341881645@alphaville>
Hi,
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > o post an ECM to begin with - no ifs, ands or buts.
>> > o post what you tested *exactly*.
>> > o test what you (or somebody else) posted *exactly* as it was posted.
>>
>> A comment with regards to the above; from the experience in this thread
>> it seems posting an ECM is better done as a plain text attachment rather
>> than inline quoted regions. After all getting from inline quoted regions
>> to working examples require human intervention which, as we saw, is
>> prone to errors. ;)
>>
>
> If the human intervention is the problem, then I would advocate
> education, rather than attachments, as the solution: after all there is
> nothing that would stop that kind of intervention *after* the attachment
> has been saved. But in the face of more and more idiotic mail software
> out there that mangles messages irredeemably, I will reluctantly agree:
> I'm still old fashioned enough to prefer inline quoting, but I have been
> known to repost something as an attachment if the inline post gets
> mangled.
>
:) Nothing beats inline quotes when it comes to readability. But I guess
some of the modern GUI clients offer smooth viewing of text attachments.
e.g. I think in T-bird you can see the contents of a text attachment
separated from the email by a horizontal separator without actually
opening it.
However I also notice these clients often mess up the MIME types when
attaching something; this in turn screws up the archive and confuses
email clients on the receiving end[1].
Two examples of how not to do it:
1. <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/32038>
2. <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/32038/focus=32118>
> Nick
>
Footnotes:
[1] I believe I learnt about the importance of attachment MIME types
from you Nick. ;)
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-10 1:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-08 21:09 org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-09 0:36 ` org-export-select-tags Nick Dokos
2012-07-09 8:54 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-09 9:20 ` org-export-select-tags Suvayu Ali
2012-07-09 9:37 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-09 14:36 ` org-export-select-tags Nick Dokos
2012-07-09 14:46 ` org-export-select-tags Nick Dokos
2012-07-09 20:01 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-09 20:13 ` org-export-select-tags Nick Dokos
2012-07-09 20:14 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-09 20:50 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-09 21:05 ` org-export-select-tags Nick Dokos
2012-07-09 21:16 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-10 18:39 ` org-export-select-tags Achim Gratz
2012-07-09 21:09 ` org-export-select-tags Jambunathan K
2012-07-09 21:17 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-09 21:27 ` org-export-select-tags Jambunathan K
2012-07-09 21:30 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-09 21:25 ` org-export-select-tags suvayu ali
2012-07-09 9:44 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-09 9:46 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-09 9:25 ` org-export-select-tags Jambunathan K
2012-07-09 9:38 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-09 10:16 ` org-export-select-tags Jambunathan K
2012-07-09 10:47 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-09 13:06 ` org-export-select-tags Jambunathan K
2012-07-09 13:39 ` org-export-select-tags Bastien
2012-07-09 21:25 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-09 21:38 ` org-export-select-tags Jambunathan K
2012-07-09 21:56 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-09 21:39 ` org-export-select-tags Nick Dokos
2012-07-09 21:43 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-09 21:49 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-09 22:13 ` org-export-select-tags Nick Dokos
2012-07-10 0:31 ` org-export-select-tags suvayu ali
2012-07-10 0:54 ` org-export-select-tags Nick Dokos
2012-07-10 1:39 ` suvayu ali [this message]
2012-07-10 8:30 ` org-export-select-tags SW
2012-07-10 12:00 ` org-export-select-tags Jambunathan K
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