Re: Dual content (text/plain and text/html) on xen-devel (was Re: Linux PV domU with >1 vCPU never resumes after xl save/restore)

On Wed, Aug 5, 2026 at 11:28 PM Jan Beulich <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 05.08.2026 14:15, George Dunlap wrote:
> > You're asking every person who sends an email to xen-devel to remember to
> > take an action before sending the mail
>
> You're by far not the first one to be asked this; you're the first one to
> have an issue with being asked, beyond some companies' IT getting in the
> way. (As to the latter point, I'm already combining my observations on
> xen-devel@ with those elsewhere.)
>

And indeed, if I were sending to a community I was new to, I would just
suck it up.  I'm pushing back for two reasons: first, it wasn't an issue
for the previous 18 years, so I'm trying to figure out why it's an issue
now; secondly, whether it's a big barrier or not, it adds a barrier, which
seems to me unnecessary.

I do feel a bit weird starting an argument about this on my second or third
public post coming back.  But, the arguments put forth to support the
"text/plain *only*" position don't seem to me (at the moment) to be
justified; and in this community I'm in a position to push back in a way a
newbie would not be.


> > because your MUA isn't handling
> > the standard properly.  Is that really reasonable?  Couldn't you tell
> > Thunderbird to ignore html and only render text/plain?
>
> Both questions go together: text/plain as the only content is (not just by
> us) being asked for because that's the form known to work virtually
> everywhere. Wanting your mails to be properly handled at all receiving
> ends is - I think - not only reasonable, but also in your own interest?
>

As I said in a sibling thread, the fact stands that (as far as I can tell)
Gmail is following long-established mail conventions, and Thunderbird is
not.  Juergen can read my mail just fine.  *His* MUA generates somewhat
mangled responses, specifically because *it* is using HTML rather than
text/plain; I don't see why that should be my issue.

 -George