On 2025-03-03 10:35:32 -0700 (-0700), Soren Stoutner wrote: [...]
I am not an expert on format=flowed, so I can’t vouch for the following myself, but I thought it was interesting that the article above linked to the following:https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/MailingListEtiquette#ThunderbirdWhich has instructions for disabling format=flowed, saying it caused problems. I’m not sure how much OpenStack represents general consensus for what works best on mailing lists, but it is at least one data point.
I'm the main list admin for the OpenStack mailing lists these days, and I haven't observed it causing any issues. Also, as the main admin for that wiki, I feel compelled to point out the article you linked has included that disclaimer about Thunderbird's format=flowed problems since before it was migrated from MoinMoin to Mediawiki over 13 years ago, so it very well could be outdated. Based on the context in the last sentence of that section, I think it may have been something to do with inlined diffs/patches being malformed by the client with that option enabled, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's been fixed in the decade+ since.
I'll go ahead and annotate the recommendation to suggest it's probably outdated, thanks for pointing that out!
-- Jeremy Stanley
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