Re: cygserver blocking on semctl(SETVAL) call

[mwoehlke <mwoehlke at tibco dot com>]

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!

> Oh my god, that's the  end of the world, let me tell you.

Apparently it was not, as we're both still here.

> Can't your list server just strip the html version if you dislike html 
> so much? 

I'm not sure silently stripping the HTML part is the right idea. The 
point is to stop people that don't know what they're doing (and thus 
don't understand why HTML is EVIL EVIL EVIL) from continuing to send the 
stuff in ignorance; i.e. to force people to fix - or at least understand 
- their mailer.

> And even so, is HTML really so bad?

Yes. Many people (including me) hate it, it's a security concern, it 
leads to a non-homogeneous experience...

http://www.birdhouse.org/etc/evilmail.html
http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml (and links)
http://www.vexen.co.uk/notes/htmlemails.html

> 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.

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Matthew
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