On Tuesday, 02 October 2018 at 12:55, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 12:50 PM Dominik 'Rathann'
Mierzejewski <
dominik(a)greysector.net> wrote:
> Dear developers,
>
Hello, Dominik ;)
sorry for a slightly off-topic post, but I've noticed that a significant
> number of posters is sending HTML e-mail to this list (not to mention
> top-replying), which generates unnecessary network traffic. Some people
> pay for every bit downloaded, so they're paying for the same information
> twice, because the e-mails are sent with multipart/alternative format,
> which contains BOTH text/plain and text/html. One thing I noticed those
> senders have in common is that they use Gmail.
>
> So, a plea to Gmail users: please stop sending HTML e-mail to Fedora
> mailing lists.
>
I'm sending you this HTML email because Google dropped possibility to send
plaintext emails. Sorry =(
Stop sending e-mail to public mailing lists using Gmail, then? Or are
you going to pay for affected people's bandwith? Mailing lists have push
delivery model, so it's not possible to filter-out only HTML e-mail
before it's already downloaded.
Regards,
Dominik
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